PatrickLondon

Lithuania has developed its own perfume, as an exercise in national identity and branding. What would you suggest for other countries?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandsty...ia-scent-smell

flanneruk

Where I live, depending on the time of year,either the mixture of light rain and new mown grass or just cow dung. Actually, right now: all three at once.

JulieVikmanis

Pork and sauerkraut for Germany. Fresh baked bread for France. Coffee for Austria or Turkey.

Cowboy1968

Sauerkraut.. duh!
It's much more the smell of fresh Brathendl.. roast chicken, and beer... the latter smelling not too exciting when you live just a half a mile from a brewery... but it sure is an emblematic "perfume" that fills the air of an entire city district..

tarquin

There used to be a most wonderful aroma of Gauloise, garlic and coffee as you alighted at the Gard du Nord - sadly no longer so.

flanneruk

The US: that odd cinnamon smell just about every shopping mall seems to have.

In France, OTOH, the smell of bread is truly rare, since most bakers aren't in enclosed malls, so their smell escapes into the sky (hot air and all that). The REAL French smell, now the place no longer reeks of Gauloises, is that extraordinary Paris metro whiff.

Greece: rigani and salt air.

Michael

The Paris métro used to have its own odor, which was slowly disappearing line by line. This year we noticed that we did not come across the charateristic smell at all.

PatrickLondon

I associate large chunks of Germany with the smell of brown coal, but I imagine that's in the past now.