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30 best smells

Writer's picture: Untold Stories Academy Untold Stories Academy

A list of 30 best smells (in my opinion at least) to use in your writing:


1.      Autumn leaves

2.      Baking bread

3.      Baking cake

4.      Basil

5.      Buttery toast 



6.      Cinnamon

7.      Cloves

8.      Coffee

9.      Fresh washing

10.  Freshly cut grass



11.  Frying bacon

12.  Frying onions

13.  Hot chocolate

14.  Lavender

15.  Lemons



16.  Lilac

17.  Lily of the Valley

18.  Marmalade

19.  New books

20.  Orange peel



21.  Peaches

22.  Peppermint

23.  Pine trees

24.  Ripening tomatoes

25.  Roses



26.  Sea

27.  Soap

28.  Thyme

29.  Vanilla pods

30.  Wet earth after rain (petrichor)


Do you have a favourite smell that isn't listed here? I'd love to know.

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