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Favorite Homestead/Country Scents (What Are Yours?)

Donner MacRae

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What are some of your favorite scents from around the homestead or that you associate with rural/country life?

I'll start with one of mine:

The still-smoldering remnants of a previous day's stump fire being rained out.

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Douglas Alpenstock

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Sweet clover is high on my list.

So much so that I chop up and dry entire plants -- the scent is all through the plant, not just in the flowers.

When I build the Taj Mahal of outhouses, one element in "pleasantness" will be dried sweet clover tossed down the hole -- when exposed to moisture, the scent is released.

Joao Winckler

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Tomato foliage when you brush past the plants. That sharp green smell is completely unique. Also rain hitting dry soil after a long dry spell in summer, nothing quite like it.

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John F Dean

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Rain…any time…any place.

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greg mosser

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two days after being cut, hay at it’s sweetest smell

Elanor Gardner

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Favorite country scent is the nose of a horse. I wish I had one. Maybe someday. If my ship ever comes in....

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Tom Gordon

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Aromatic Cedar and freshly ripped White Pine.

Anne Miller

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Rosemary and Sweet Alyssum for outside.

Orange for inside.

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Nancy Reading

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