What are Some of Your Favorite Scents?

As highly sensitive people (HSPs), we can particularly enjoy scents more than most! Scents can also be a great grounding tool and fill up our positivity tank!

This was a fun poll I conducted in my Sensitive Empowerment Community that I thought would be fun to share!

What are some of your favorite scents? Would love to hear your favorite scents too in the comments!

Here are some favorite scents of HSPs…

• One of my favorite scents is the citrus flower on a citrus tree when it’s open and the smell of lemons or limes when they’re cut open. also love the smell of patchouli and sandalwood and the smell of my cat’s fur. When Niko was a puppy he smelled like cinnamon or pumpkin spice and we loved that too! Food wise I love the smell of garlic and onions cooking. So many good smells to think of…❤️

• I like the aroma of baking bread. I like rose and jasmine essential oils. I like my Italian mother's spaghetti sauce simmering all day long. The smell of freshly shampooed hair. And so much more.

• I love the smell of campfires but I can't be near them unfortunately as the smoke really bothers me. I love the smell of fresh mowed grass. Baby powder, lavender, lemons, the smell in the forest after its rained. I too love sandalwood & patchouli & garlic. I love cinnamon smell & fresh carnations. 💜

• I think sandalwood and cinnamon are very great scents too💗

• I am a big candle guy. My favorite scents are anything sweet/baked/fruity (love apple smells in the fall, probably because I am allergic and can't eat them). Fall is my favorite time of the year. I burn candles in my office every day and throughout the house at different times of the day. I have recently found and fallen in love with a small shop out of Knoxville Tennessee - spireside.com. They have the most unusual and captivating scents I have ever smelled. The titles and smells are uncanny. Candles bring me so much comfort.

• I sometimes will boil orange peels, vanilla, and cinnamon sticks. It makes the house smell yummy. I also love the smell of sautéed onion & garlic, babies, toasted sugar, and fresh bread.

• I’ve done that with apples + cinnamon on the stovetop ~ soften and stew them. Delicious, smells so good, you (and the babies have a snack as well)!

• Favorite smells: clean linen, petrichor (the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil), cinnamon (especially in the fall), lavender, tree tea oil, and pine trees.

• Yes! Clean sheets are a special scent! I get peace of mind and feel so positive 😂

• I love the smell of fragrant roses! I also love the smell of peppermint 😊

• Yes that's the one! I couldn't come up with the name. One of my elderly clients in her 90s brought me a really large fragrant double delight from her garden, it was so wonderful!

• Cinnamon, Jasmine flowers in a garden, roses, falling rain, baking bread, grinding coffee, freshly cut grass.

• I love vanilla the most. But I also love citrus. Cinnamon always reminds me of my mom.

• High high level of smell (and taste) sensitivity for me (+/-)! I really appreciate the scents and smells I love + tolerate Cinnamon, limes + when they are grilled, black tea, coffee, Elizabeth Arden’s ‘Green tea’ perfume, This new botanical perfume I’m now a bit obsessed with, and
  Bosisto’s roll on energy blend. Yum!

• Lavender, rosemary, cinnamon, basil, jasmine, freshly mowed grass, the fresh air after a good rain, the calming scent of our Golden Retriever .......:):)

• Yes, the fresh smell after a rain! Good one!

• Citrus and lavender are my favorites!

• The smell of the sea, grass, flowers (especially roses), basil

• Gardenia, Jasmine, fresh mowed grass

• I love the smell of forest when it's raining (or have been raining), Rosmary, Citrus, and onion being fried in a pan ^^

• Oooh I have so many! A wood-burning oven in a restaurant, running my hands over a rosemary bush, peeling citrus, the whiff as you open the door to a bakery, cedar saunas, driving through a eucalyptus forest with the windows down, cinnamon stick gently boiling on the stove, a french press as the hot water hits the ground beans, my wife's hair, baking anything with banana in it, roast chicken in the oven, remembering my Opa's cologne, unexpectedly walking by a jasmine bush, chopping a big pile of summer basil leaves, my dog's fur, the air after a hard rain storm, and lemongrass essential oil in a steam room.

• The circle of life all from one sprig of an herb someone planted essentially as decoration. Love it. 😊

• White jasmine scent is so comforting to me. Gardenia scent has a lovely warmth to me. I love the smell of freshly ground coffee. Freshly washed babies are a snuggly fun scent!! Frying onions are so savory smelling. I really enjoy the perfume ‘Sand and Sable’. Such a rich and beach-like scent, mindful of the evening after a day in the sun:)

• I have a favorite scent that I always wear - it's called Chloe' Narcisse. It's full of flower scents! My favorite natural scents are purple hyacinth and my uber fave - gardenia! I absolutely cannot pass by a blossom without stopping to stick my nose in it!

• I love lavender, rosemary, and eucalyptus.

• earthen aroma after rain, lemon, lavender, sandlewood, rose

• rose + cardamom. i also feel instantly calm whenever i smell dill + it makes me giggle ☺️

• Blue Tansy, Lemongrass, Ylang Ylang Frankincense, White Angelica

• Freshly-ground coffee. Smoky smell (whether from a fireplace or campfire or even smoky flavors in food, like smoked paprika). Lavender, eucalyptus. High-quality incense sticks. Simmer pots for the season (maybe in winter/fall it would include apples, lemon, orange, cinnamon sticks, rosemary...). Freshly-mown grass. How my dogs smell when they're warm and sleepy.

• Honeysuckle, jasmine, yang ylang, rose, lavender, apples and cinnamon, oranges, grapefruit, lemons, Salo panto, eucalyptus, basil, rosemary...and fresh bakery and barbecue sauce 😃

• Cedar trees, , my husbands different colognes, ocean, homemade bread and babies.

• I love this question. Scents are so important to me and can so easily improve my mood. It's hard to select just a few. I had a perfumer create an oil blend for me based on the flowers in my name (lily of the valley, violet) and other scents based on my astrological chart. I love to wear this when I need to remind myself to stay centered.

  I also adore bergamot, basil, certain sandalwood/patchouli blends, amber incense, clary sage, and fresh cut boxwood. And if I'm baking I always dab a little vanilla extract on my wrists :)

• Citrus essential oils, cinnamon, fresh coffee, passionfruit, mint, basil

• Reading this I wish there was such a thing as smelly-vision! It also makes me realise how much I appreciate my sense of smell and how it affects my mood. It has such a link to memory too, that many scents are so comforting.

  This might be an odd one but I quite like damp smells! The smell of slightly warm/damp hay reminds of looking after lambs a few years back. I also like the smell of woods after the rain and damp soil - that sort of earthy smell associated with gardening and the like. Probably all my time spent outdoors (getting wet!).

  I like lavender a lot; bergamot and similar softer citrus scents like orange oil or neroli. Warming spices like cumin and nutmeg. Baked bread, well any baking really... Dark chocolate.

  I like honeysuckle too and roses - yes we have to stop and smell those, quite literally! 🌹

• mint, lavender, freshly backed chocolate cake or bread

• Lately I can't get enough of lavender. It's lavender bubble bath every night, with baking soda, epsom, and lavender essential oil. Followed by lavender lotion. And occasionally spritzes of lavender room spray.

What are some of your favorite scents?

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Julie Bjelland is a psychotherapist specializing in high sensitivity, Author of The Empowered Highly Sensitive Person, host of The HSP Podcast, and founder of the Sensitive Empowerment Community. Her books, blog, online courses, and free Masterclasses have helped thousands of highly sensitive people (HSPs) worldwide reduce their challenges, access their gifts, and discover their significant value to thrive to their fullest potential. Her HSPs in Heart-Centered Business Group connects and supports HSP healers and practitioners. Julie loves connecting in her Sensitive Empowerment Community and warmly invites you to join this positive, safe, and welcoming space. JulieBjelland.com❤️🌈❤️ (she/her)