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[debcakes]

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. 

[drizzellla]

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@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.

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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.

[skatting44]

@qualitygal 

 do you have Philosophy products in your home ?

[JeanLouiseFinch]

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@skatting44 wrote:

@qualitygal 

 do you have Philosophy products in your home ?

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

[CelticCrafter]

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.

[jlkz]

@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 !

[kindred cats]

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

[KathyM23]

@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.

[SilleeMee]

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

[Tinkrbl44]

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@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. 

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@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.