Favorite Aromas

I'm past due for another top 10. Please feel free to add to this list and let me know what I'm missing.

Also, I resisted as long as I could, but I had to turn on comment verification this morning. You might recall I said I would keep it off for as long as I could manage manually deleting spam. I'd get one here, one there. Little did I know they were planning a coup. I received about 78 posts this morning from spammers. Bastards.

Without further ado, here's a brief list of smells that make me happy I'm alive:

• Fresh-cut grass
  
• The Earth after a heavy rain
  
• The ocean at high tide
  
• Lilac
  
• Anything on a barbeque
  
• My son after his bath (Fountain of Youth, Ray! Fountain of Youth!)
  
• Horse Manure
  
• Pipe smoke
  
• Good coffee
  
• Tanning lotion

I guess it's only fair that I also post the banes to my olfactory existence. These puppies destroy the organoleptic qualites of my nose. I cannot even imagine enduring them for more than a few seconds, especially with this device. They are:

• Vomit
  
• Skunk
  
• The ocean at low tide
  
• Cabbies
  
• Garbage trucks
  
• My son after his corn and raisin dump
  
• Cow manure
  
• Cigar smoke
  
• Bus station chinese food farts
  
• The innerds of anything dead over three days