Can you smell the seasons?

[thirty-30]

Interesting discussion I've just had with my other half.

She thinks it's odd that I claim I can smell the change in the seasons. I -always- can, have been able to all my life. You notice it in summer-fall, and fall-winter and winter-spring, but not so much spring-summer.

I can't really describe it. Like right now, the air is changing to be sharper to me. It's just a notably different smell.

Am I making sense? Can you smell them too?

Or is 30-30 on his meds again?

[NSRfishing]

i can exacty what you describing winter to spring is the best

[silver]

I think I know what you mean, I ride a motorcycle and the nose gets a work out. I can smell a combine at work, an alkaline slough, a clean corral, fresh summerfallow and many others. These smells are quite quick, not filtered through the air conditioning of a car. I got a dose of H2S a few years back, so the nose doesnt work that well, but I think I know of what you speak.

[The Rog Man]

YUP, i really notice from summer to fall as in right now.
And fall to winter the other seasons not as much.
maybe its a guy thing???? or an outdoorsman thing??
At 6:30 in the morning it is plain as the nose on my face that fall is lurking!!
yer wife can rest assured yer not crazy !!!

[NSRfishing]

does your wife smoke most smokers i know have a terrible sense of smell

[haywarje]

Coincedence, or not. I was out in the field all day today and noticed it to be the most aromatic day of the year so far to me. I also so my first whitetail scrape of the year!

[rugatika]

Yup, I always notice it...summer to fall like right now is the best for me...my dad always did too.

[T-Bone]

Ever notice you can smell Duck and goose season coming in?? have been since a young boy

[Dr. Phil A]

I can smell each season as well. Very distinct differences. Sure smelled like fall this morning when we had just enough rain to appear like a heavy dew. Winter to spring the snow starts to "rot".

Nose serves me well when I am fixing my vehicles.

Was a GM electrical school one time and the instructor had put in a short then wrapped it with black tape. Ticked him right off when I told him that I smelled it first then saw it as it started to smoke.

Fresh cut hay and fresh turned earth are some of the best smells IMO. The one that really gets me is the fresh bread smell you get on the north side of Red Deer going past the flour/ethanol plant.

[hayseed]

Yup... sure can...really noticed it today being cooler...

[cranky]

Yup! Never thought to ask anyone before. Thought everybody could.

[pogo]

Originally Posted by thirty-30

Interesting discussion I've just had with my other half.

She thinks it's odd that I claim I can smell the change in the seasons. I -always- can, have been able to all my life. You notice it in summer-fall, and fall-winter and winter-spring, but not so much spring-summer.

I can't really describe it. Like right now, the air is changing to be sharper to me. It's just a notably different smell.

Am I making sense? Can you smell them too?

Or is 30-30 on his meds again?

Very interesting that you started this thread because I was thinking about the same thing.

Not sure if it's instinctive or habit or wishful anticipation, but for me, I smelled it in about mid August, just before heading out to B.C.'s Lakes District. I was just getting into the car in the driveway and it was a clear morning, but as I opened the car door there was a little breeze that ruffled the leaves in the tree beside the driveway in with just a slightly different sound. It sounded like the leaves were just a little bit drier, past their prime growth period and on the backside of their lifespan curve, so to speak. And the air had that certain "je ne c'est qoui" smell about it. That feel about it that we were on the downside of summer and feeling "fallish". A very subtle smell that the vegetation is no longer flourishing, but, sadly, turned the corner and now dying. But, not the definite pungent smell of wet ground and dead leaves that we get well into the fall. Just an ever so slight "hint" of that smell. I know what you're talking about.

Wierd, huh? Must be the "knuckledragger" in me.

[Arn?Narn.]

I can tell you with great appreciation that I too smell the seasons.

In fact, the chnage of the season...and an entire feeling that goes with it...

Mid to late October I will go outside. It may be walking to the truck, or walking back from a days hunting,...or even just popping up to the shop or out to the shed.

There will be a smell, a feeling, a chill....breathe it down deep...take a look at the sky, the trees, .. this is when fall has peaked and within a short time will be gone.

I get the same for Spring and for winter,...but oddly enough, I never have the feeling, or smells, etc. that make me feel summer has arrived.

I don't appreciate summer like some do, so perhaps that has something to do with it.

[Alberta Bigbore]

This morning i walked out the door to work and told the girlfriend that it smells like Hunting Season...

[SEADOG]

The only season i can smell is huntin season! and it smells some good!

[bowhunter9841]

I have the smell of fall tickling my nose these days! Can't wait to get out and do some killing.....oops, I mean hunting! Lol!

[HunterDave]

Originally Posted by thirty-30

She thinks it's odd that I claim I can smell the change in the seasons.

Am I making sense? Can you smell them too?

Yup, I know exactly what you mean and I can smell the different seasons as well. If your wife thinks that's weird then she probably wouldn't believe me when I say that I can hear the different seasons as well. I don't know what it is but the wind sounds different through the seasons as well.

[countrykid]

Yup, I can smell changing seasons as well. However, I smell some rather unorthadox seasons: Calving season, Haying season Harvest, and Deer season

[Jamie]

I also know what you are talking about.
For me it is summer to fall.
It reminds me of football.

I look forward to that night every year. It makes me feel like I am moving forward.

Jamie

[Big Daddy Badger]

Never mind season smells.
I smell weather changes coming.
I always know when it is going to rain or snow and I can usually smell the difference between em. Hail is a bit tougher I get it confused with simple thunder showers.

My favorite season smell is fall though.
It brings back many happy memories... it's fresh, cool and earthy the smell of harvest...hunting, turkey and pumpkin pie.

[BGSH]

you can not only smell it, you can hear it, look up i saw hundreds and hundred of what i think are cormernts flying thousands of feet up in the air going south, you can barely see them they are so high, but you can sure hear the strange clicking noise they make, wicked sight to see.

[fordtruckin]

yup. I can always tell winter spring summer and fall. Mostly Spring and Fall though.

[catnthehat]

We use so littel of our senses that when someone claims to be able to smell something, see something , or hear something that someone else dosen't, they figure that person is giving them some sort of B.S.
If you train your senses to be heightened, it's amazing what you are capable of!
Cat

[Big Daddy Badger]

Originally Posted by catnthehat

We use so littel of our senses that when someone claims to be able to smell something, see something , or hear something that someone else dosen't, they figure that person is giving them some sort of B.S.
If you train your senses to be heightened, it's amazing what you are capable of!
Cat

Yup.
Animals do.
We've just gotten out of practice.

[FishingMOM]

Its snowing

[honda450]

Do I smell the seasons? Nope got a bad sniffer.

But i can sniff hayseed from a mile away. Gotta learn that boy.

[creeky]

I can. Most definitely.

A little now, but coming up more so the smell of "musty sugar" from the deciduous trees. Anyone else sense that/better able to articulate my interpretation?