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Alright, what does this mean?

qualitygal — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 15:18:17 GMT

The other day, I thought I smelled cake. Today, it's brownies. Does this sound like there's an unlying chocolate problem? LOL. The cake I've smelled twice now. What is going on? LOL.

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Harpa — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 15:29:14 GMT

What fragrance are you wearing, @qualitygal ?

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Desertdi — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 15:32:12 GMT

@qualitygal wrote:
The other day, I thought I smelled cake. Today, it's brownies. Does this sound like there's an unlying chocolate problem? LOL. The cake I've smelled twice now. What is going on? LOL.

@qualitygal Maybe a nearby neighbor is baking (???)

Re: Alright, what does this mean?

LdyBugz — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 15:36:42 GMT

I think it means it's time to lock up the liquor! 😁

You know, some believe that when you smell a scent out of the blue for no particular reason is because someone that has passed on is visiting you.

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CicadaSongs — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 15:38:12 GMT

Wishful thinking???

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JeanLouiseFinch — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 15:43:03 GMT

Do you drink flavored coffee?

An opened bar of chocolate nearby?

A scented candle?

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Desert Lily — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 15:56:41 GMT

There is such a thing as phantosmia, phantom smells.

Those smells of brownies and cake sound delicious. We lived not too far from a Nestles plant when I was a kid. The smell grew more heavenly as we drove closer to it. Memories are attached to such smells.

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Zhills — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 16:00:52 GMT

This happened to me when I was pregnant!

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deepwaterdotter — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 16:04:46 GMT

@Zhills wrote:
This happened to me when I was pregnant!

Could it be because you had 'a bun in the oven'?

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Citrine1 — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 16:06:51 GMT

This happens to me all the time. Somestimes it's cookies baking, chicken roasting or the scent of my deceased father's pipe tobacco. I just enjoy the aromas and don't dwell on it.

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debcakes — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 16:22:51 GMT

We had a Nestle plant in a nearby town, I remember those great smells. I got to take a tour once and really enjoyed seeing hundreds, if not thousands of chocolate chips being made at once. They also sold the cocoa bean shells for mulch. My husband used them around our house. It was cruel to come home and think there were brownies waiting. Never were.

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drizzellla — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 16:23:02 GMT

@Desert Lily wrote:
There is such a thing as phantosmia, phantom smells.
Those smells of brownies and cake sound delicious. We lived not too far from a Nestles plant when I was a kid. The smell grew more heavenly as we drove closer to it. Memories are attached to such smells.

There was a Nabisco plant several miles from our house. You could tell when they were baking as you passed by. It was almost a tourist attraction when they were baking. It smelled so good.

I can't help buy think a neighbor is cooking and maybe using her exhast fan.

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skatting44 — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 16:23:46 GMT

@qualitygal

do you have Philosophy products in your home ?

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JeanLouiseFinch — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 17:10:34 GMT

@skatting44 wrote:
@qualitygal
do you have Philosophy products in your home ?

It wouldn't be that. They have no scent anymore. 😏

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CelticCrafter — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 17:37:19 GMT

It's a loved one.

For me, every once in a blue moon I will smell burnt toast in the middle of the night and it's not either of us burning toast. My father loved burnt toast.

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jlkz — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 18:15:08 GMT

@qualitygal @ldybugz

Recently the 90-year old next door neighbor to my parents old home, passed. When I learned of it, the next day the scent of baking brownies was unmistakable. I haven't baked in years and neither has DH.

Then I remembered: every time I stopped in to che k on her when I was in the area, she always plied me with some type cookie or snack she had baked ! I do not doubt that that was her saying Hello !

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kindred cats — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 18:23:13 GMT

I'm so jealous of those spontaneous good aromas from loved ones gone to heaven. Send some to me.

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KathyM23 — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 19:04:31 GMT

@qualitygal I think your subconscious is telling you to bake a chocolate cake. Try this one DH makes.

A box of Betty Crocker Triple Chocolate cake mix, can of cherry pie filling, 2 eggs, bake for 40 minutes at 350. It is so good and so rich you don't even need to make icing if you don't want to. The cake is so good we never icing it.

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SilleeMee — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 19:10:30 GMT

I just googled about smells that aren't really there and I'm not going to post what I found. Yikes...not good.

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Tinkrbl44 — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 19:11:03 GMT

@qualitygal wrote:
The other day, I thought I smelled cake. Today, it's brownies. Does this sound like there's an unlying chocolate problem? LOL. The cake I've smelled twice now. What is going on? LOL.

@qualitygal

You left out an important point ... where were you when you smelled these things? At home? Alone or with others?

There's a couple very well known women's fragrances that have a Vanilla base ... and on some skin chemistries, it can be more pronounced than on others.