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Opened a bale of the 2024 meadow hay 3 days ago, purely to check it out properly and also to add it to make a few 50/50 filled nets (mixing the last 2 old bales in) just in case I might need nets ready for potential bad weather.
Ooooh, the delicious waft as I released the strings.... B taste tested it (having already had yard sweepings from when it was delivered in summer) and cleared the half slice immediately.

Going into hay barn this morning and the heady but light aroma filled my nose once more. If all the bales are like the 2 I've opened, I'll be happy, as not only has it got a good nose, but the bales are on the large side too.

The aroma of good hay rates up at the top of my scent, along with neatly done boiled barley, the garden in summer after a light shower or after mowing the lawn.

What's your top wafts?
 
That bale sounds delightful FF…fingers crossed all your bales are like that!

We have huge laurel growing here and burning that on the woodburner wafts a faint almond marzipan smoke into the outside air, due to the cyanide in the wood.
( Its best not burnt on an indoor open fire due to this.)
Other woods can give off a pleasant smelling smoke too - i bet there’s woodsmen that can distinguish which wood is being burnt by the smoke smell, but my senses aren’t so finely tuned yet!

This time of year too, after a dry period in the forest, when it rains, the wild mushrooms pop up, and a faint mushroomy scent fills the air when youre near them.
 
Fresh hay is a joy.

I love what I called ‘show smell,’ which doesn’t seem to be so common now. A mixture of slightly damp crushed grass, fly spray, horse sweat and hoof oil, with an undertone of saddle soap. Walk down the horsebox lines of a show on grass and you’d know it, arenas just aren’t the same!
 
Stockholm tar spray. Canter Mane and Tail spray but from 30 years ago; they've changed it and I don't like how it smells now.

Releve - I adore the smell of Releve. I'm often tempted to buy a bag so I can inhale the smell, but if I gave my EMS ponies a pinch of Releve a day, the bag would still last about 10 years 😂
 
Dave's Mam said:
Dave's breath after his dinner
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That just reminded me of a book I loved when I was a kid, Talking of Horses by Monica Dickens.

I found the quote I was thinking of

A horse has the headiest, most satisfying scent of all animals. Mostly because of what he eats. But cows eat grass and hay and clover too, and there is less pleasure in their smell. A cow’s breath smells of overfed babies. A horse’s breath is a mixture of warm apples and chicken soup
 
criso said:
That just reminded me of a book I loved when I was a kid, Talking of Horses by Monica Dickens.

I found the quote I was thinking of

A horse has the headiest, most satisfying scent of all animals. Mostly because of what he eats. But cows eat grass and hay and clover too, and there is less pleasure in their smell. A cow’s breath smells of overfed babies. A horse’s breath is a mixture of warm apples and chicken soup
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I love this book, just being with horses…
 
Snowfilly said:
Perfume manufacturers looking at this thread and wondering why they bother with standard scents when we all want horse, smoke and rain with a hint of leather!
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