I think I've smelled too much old fish to fully appreciate ocean smells.
Spike: Taking up smoking, are you? Harmony: I am a villain, Spike. Hello!
Spike/Harm ,'Help'
Firefly 4: Also, we can kill you with our brains
Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.
reequeen - Apr 19, 2005 9:36:29 am PDT #1205 of 10001
"It's got to be the hair, Cotton. It's beautiful! Feathered and lethal. You just don't see it nowadays." Pepper Brooks - Dodgeball
§ ita § - Apr 19, 2005 9:38:15 am PDT #1206 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I don't think there are any fish in the water near here. Despite the fishing poles.
And in Jamaica, the fish never got old enough to be a problem. God, that's a fresh smell.
beathen - Apr 19, 2005 9:38:29 am PDT #1207 of 10001
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.
I have two favorite, natural smells:
1. Dead, wet leaves in a forest - it's a very autumn smell.
2. The moist, warm summer air just before and after it rains.
Aims - Apr 19, 2005 9:47:47 am PDT #1208 of 10001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Outdoor smells: Freshly mown grass, lilacs, cedar after it rains
Indoor smells: Ginger cookies, men who smell of fabric softener, roasting turkey.
sfmarty - Apr 19, 2005 10:05:26 am PDT #1209 of 10001
Who? moi??
I went to a high school in San Francisco, across the street from Ghiradeli's chocolate factory (now a mall). Going to the football games was wonderful.
beathen - Apr 19, 2005 10:36:56 am PDT #1210 of 10001
Sure I went over to the Dark Side, but just to pick up a few things.
Favorite outdoor flower smells: Lilacs, Lily of the Valley, Wild Violets, apple blossoms
aurelia - Apr 19, 2005 11:15:13 am PDT #1211 of 10001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Part of St. Louis smells like Tums. In Detroit, I lived across the street from a small bakery. That was heavenly (and high contrast to the look of the area).
I like the clean smell after a rain.
Note to Joss: Smell-o-vision!
JZ - Apr 19, 2005 11:15:43 am PDT #1212 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Mmmmm, apple blossoms.
Jasmine is blooming riotously all over the East Bay right now. Walking past a jasmine plant climbing up a school fence on a warm, sunny afternoon=stoned with sensuous animal pleasure.
Betsy HP - Apr 19, 2005 11:42:51 am PDT #1213 of 10001
If I only had a brain...
I do love Jasmine.
I walk into my house each evening: jasmine over the gate, lilac just inside the gate, lemon blossom three feet afterward. Happy, happy nose.
beekaytee - Apr 19, 2005 11:44:47 am PDT #1214 of 10001
Compassionately intolerant
I have the sort of olefactory acuity that makes most smells wince-inducing but there are a few:
Hazelnut coffee beans. I never drink the stuff, but the smell of the beans makes me so happy, an old boyfriend once ground a bunch up and scattered them on the floorboards of my car. (shortsighted, of course, but romantic none-the-less)
Speaking of ocean...Crabtree & Evelyn's Jojoba products smell like I think the ocean should. My favorite manufactured smell of all time.
I'm with Aimee on the men smelling like fabric softener. It says to much!
eta: ::glances furtively at the thread title::
And I bet Mal smells GREAT. All hero-ey and stuff.