A few things:
Have y’all watched Rivals yet? I loved it. Dramatic, fun, set in the 80s, and everyone is very hot. I watched it on Hulu.
I asked you for your favorite smells, here’s some of the answers:
Petrichor
Gasoline
Cooking onions/garlic (this one showed up so many times!)
Fresh waffle cones
Blown out birthday candles
Tomatoes on the vine
Cinnamon
Hot bread (this person grew up next to a bread factory!)
Your mom
Pine trees
Salt water
Waffles or pancakes cooking downstairs on a Saturday morning (as a kid, and now)
Campfire
Your pet’s belly/fur/toes/general self
The post office
Lavender
Your partner
Lilacs (a very popular one!)
Chicken and dumplings in a crockpot
Roasting peanuts (this person grew up next to a Jif factory!)
Your baby blanket
Freshly torn herbs
Your grandparents’ house/kitchen/basement
Coffee
Vanilla
A particular horse pasture in the dusty summer hills of Northern California
Crisp morning air
Your baby
New books
When kids or dogs come in from playing and they smell like outside
Crayons
Wood shavings
Blooming jasmine
Laundry in the dryer (particularly wafting out of somewhere when you’re on a walk)
How the air smells on a perfect sunny fall day with the leaves
Almond
Honeysuckle
Snow
Buttered popcorn
Blooming citrus flowers
Grass fields on a summer evening
Melting butter
Fresh cut eucalyptus
Wet pavement
Rosin in a violin case
French fry trucks
Christmas tree
Hot paper right off the top of the printer
The hallway of a hotel with an indoor pool
Freshly baked croissants (chocolate, almond, and regular)
The old Bath & Body Works peppermint lotion set
Discount tire store
Clean sheets after they have cooled
Faint scent of Hawaiian Tropic Sunscreen on a towel
The garage of the Target on N. Broadway in Chicago. No other Target garages - just that one.
I’m on Bluesky now - follow me if you are too.
Someone asked for my Nuuly code - here it is.
I won the family award today, for the 36 hour labor I started one year ago!
Here’s my boy and I, matching <3
xoxo,
your favorite becca
Obsessed with Rivals. 😮💨 Will be watching again.
this list is incredible -- thank you for compiling so many wonderful sense memories <3