What’s Your Favorite Spring Smell?

Ahh, Spring. The time when one's thoughts turn to... opening up the windows in the house to let in the fresh air -- and to let in those Springtime smells!

I once read the our sense of smell is the sense that triggers the most memory in humans, and I don't doubt it. There are just certain smells that take you right back to events and activities in your past. Like walking into a school. I don't know what that smell is, but they all smell the same as when I was a student 30 years ago. And, here in Minnesota, each of our seasons have their own unique smells, too.

Now that Spring seems to finally have sprung, the smell of freshly-cut grass -- as soon as someone in the neighborhood mows their lawn -- will soon be wafting through neighborhoods throughout southeastern Minnesota, if it hasn't already. A guy on our block already had his lawnmower fired up last weekend.

We're a little early in the season yet, but the smell of lilacs in bloom always says Spring to me, as well -- as does the smell of other annuals and perennials when they bloom.

And, right now, our garage contains another smell of Spring: the distinct smell of lawn seed and fertilizer. We bought some last weekend, and seeing as our lawn has been a little too wet to use it just yet (and I need to rake it, as well), now our entire garage smells like the lawn and garden section of your favorite store -- which, to me, is a distinct smell of Spring.

What are some of your favorite smells that tell you it's finally Spring?