Top Ten Best Smells

Of the five senses the olfactory sense of smell seems to be the most underrated. It doesn’t play nearly as crucial role as sight and hearing, nor is it catered to as often as the senses of taste and touch. Still, without this remarkable sensory gift our lives would be a lot less interesting. It is with this thought in mind that I have compiled the following list of my ten most pleasing scents.

10. Melon Candle
In recent years candles with pleasing aromas have become a staple in our homes and offices. With everything from apple pie to potpourri, there is hardly an imaginable scent that hasn’t been immortalized in wax. By the far the most pleasing to the nose would be the melon-scented variety producing a delightfully strong, but not overwhelmingly sweet smell.
9. Gasoline
Petrol is definitely a love-it-or-hate-it smell. Despite the $3.00 per gallon price tag, for those who love the smell of gasoline fueling a car is the highlight of some days.
8. Peach Body Lotion
Of all the tricks females use to attract male suitors, the body (or smelling) lotion is definitely one of the best offensive moves. Particularly the peach variety, these lotions leave gentlemen with a pleasantly lingering remembrance of the evening.
7. New Car
Part of the excitement of signing that dotted line is the knowing your new car will have that familiar, just purchased smell. Whatever chemical is used to detail vehicles, it has provided millions with an added portion of enjoyment that lasts until the temporary window sticker is removed.
6. Ivory Soap
Of all the great smelling personal cleaning agents, Ivory Soap has the most distinguishable and refreshing odor. Fresh from the shower, this scent is truly the best way to wake your nose for the day.
5. Barbeque
Regardless of whether it’s hot dogs, burgers, steaks, chicken or shrimp on the barbie, if someone is cooking out, it catches your nose. Nothing attracts unwanted house guests like the salivation-inducing waft of a barbeque.
4. Christmas Tree
They say smell is the sense tied most closely to memory. Perhaps that why the scent of a freshly cut Christmas tree rejuvenates the inner-child in legions of adults. The Christmas season is never the same without the soft, but memorable scent of pine filling a home.
3. Coffee
Whether or not you’re a partaker of the world’s most popular breakfast drink, nothing is more arousing to the olfactory sense that a whiff of freshly-brewed 7-11 java or a trip through the coffee isle where fresh ground coffee is sold.
2. New Baby
There is no cleaner or more endearing smell than that of a freshly-bathed, lightly powered infant. Sure this scent is fleeting, but the intermediary moments between happy accidents are truly utopian.
1. Baking Bread
No other smell on the planet can match the pleasure derived from inhaling the scent of baking bread. When the local bakery is in high production it’s difficult not circle the block a few times to bask in the ambiance.

Other nasal-pleasing smells not making the list: Dryer Fresh Clothes with Softener, Lemon Pledge, Fresh Oranges, Nail Polish and Cinnabons.