Progymnasmata

Top Five: (in no particular order)
1) a baby
2) a puppy
3) my wife's eggplant Parmesan
4) my mother's perfume
5) my hands after I prune the Acacia redolens

Originally Posted by hack

Top Five: (in no particular order)
1) a clean baby

Love your list hack. If I'd have thought more about it I'd have kiped one of yours (above) with my little addition.

My top five:

1. freshly cut grass
2. babies
3. honeysuckle
4. the kitchen on Thanksgiving Day
5. apples and cinnamon simmering on the stove

Good blog, Comedian; I like both yours and Hack's entries.

Originally Posted by qimissung

4. the kitchen on Thanksgiving Day

I totally love this one quimi! Of course you know what makes the kitchen smell so earthy wonderful on Thanksgiving day, right? That's right. . .boiling potatoes!

Nice. I want to make one too:

1. The way healthy garden soil smells when you toss it up.
2. Trees after it rains.
3. Strong cheese.
4. Fresh lily of the valley that has just barely opened.
5. The male of the species (one which works hard with his hands and follows this with a beer).

1. The scent of rain on dry earth.
2. The scentless smell of fresh air.
3. A scent of a loving women or man snuggling next to me.
4. A women's hair.
5. Alcohol
6. A pretty flower in bloom
7. Steam from a shower
8. Chlorine from a pool
9. The inside of a church
10. Pot

Had to do ten

Oh I almost forgot:

-Tea
-Incense
-The sea
-Smoke from a match just blown out

Originally Posted by The Comedian

I totally love this one quimi! Of course you know what makes the kitchen smell so earthy wonderful on Thanksgiving day, right? That's right. . .boiling potatoes!

Good ones, JW and DB. OK, OK, I have to add a few more:

* the air after a rainstorm
*your house after you've been away for awhile
*sheets that have dried in the sun (or any clothing that has dried in the sun, for that matter)
*clothes that have just been ironed
*Christmas Day
*the smell of a creek

Is it methane that gives them that funky smell, Comedian? I did not know.

Originally Posted by qimissung

Is it methane that gives them that funky smell, Comedian? I did not know.

Yep -- methane gives off that sewage/hamburger fart smell -- usually in boggy or mucky creek beds or swamps. I felt that I needed to get something intestinal in my list.

1. A pine forest
2. Rain
3. Cooking on a fire
4. Handmade natural soaps
5. Herbs

Didn't you write a poem about farts?

Those are most excellent smells, DM. (Slaps forehead) How could I forget the smell of a wood-burning fire!!! D'oh! It's terribly ironic that I can think of so many things that smell good, because my sense of smell is not even that acute, lol.

Hehe I guess I myself am not so big on the sense of smell I had trouble coming up with 5 things that I could think of which smell good.

Good thread. I can't think of much different than ones already posted. I have to say i really love the smell of spring time flowering time, especially the dogwood trees.

I've never smelled your number 5, Comedian, methane gas from a river bottom?

1. Bacon

Originally Posted by Cunninglinguist

1. Bacon

Hahaah! If ever that was the truth!

I'm surprised nobody mentioned this: the smell of a new book.

Great list. I would have to add the smell of kids with sunscreen on :D I don't know why I love it, but it reminds me of all things warm and good in this world.

When there has been a large dry spell and it rains, just a little bit, the smell of the dried dust being kicked up off the concrete always appealed to me

1.The sweaty dirt smell of my kids hair when they've been playing outside
2.My husband's shirt after he's worn it all day (we fight over who gets to sleep in his shirt)
3.Line dried towels that were washed in bleach water (best in spring)
4.a new box of crayons (best in late summer)
5.The smell of rotting leaves
6.freshly pealed oranges (best in December)

1.) A bed of lavender
2.) Dry leaves on the ground
3.) Horses (they do have their own distinct smell, you know )
4.) The sea at low tide, with that strong but FRESH fish scent
5.) Slightly smelly boys.


Great list, Comedian. You've made me want yerba mate and there is none to be had in my house. =(

1. The rose gardens in the park in my hometown.
2. My wife's curry.
3. Leeks freshly pulled from my allotment.
4. Autumn air.
5. The smell of cinnamon trees in India.

Great blog comedian. I could go on with the smells too.

Those are great lists, Paul and 1n. I especially love 'slightly smelly boys' and 'the smell of cinnamon trees in India.'

Really, these are quite beautiful. They are assuming the aspect of 'found' poetry. My personal favorites are JuniperWoolf's and MotherHubbard's as a whole.

And how could we forget coffee, which might be the best smell in the world?