Pluggers by Rick McKee for July 28, 2023

It’s one of my favourite smells. [I use a push mower.]

Then to celebrate salmon on a cider plank over the fire.

Doesn’t hold a candle to the coumarin fragrance of “new mown hay.”

WD-40 is cologne for guys.

The Smell Of Freshly Cut Grass Means the Grass Cutting Chore is Done For Another 10 Days ! :-)

After working one summer helping to take in hay bales, I’ve developed a bit of a sensitivity to it, but I still like it if it’s not too strong.

Totally agree. Though no logos are present, a green lawn tractor smacks of being a John Deer – “Nothing runs like a Deer”. Good choice there Rick.

Sure beats Napalm in the morning.

Good ole mindful meditation.

Could be the burnt oil/exhaust fumes that excites him as well.. just saying.

I love the scent of freshly-mowed grass! It’s one of the great summer scents!

Freshly cut ‘grass’ is perfume? Dude !!!

It’s a good smell.

I once got my dad “Freshly Cut Grass” cologne for Christmas. It’s a thing!

The smell here hasn’t been very pleasant the last few days. Cut grass smell can’t compete with the nextdoor neighbor’s lab puppy’s lesson in skunkology.

Yep!

The only thing better is fresh-off-the-line laundry. Just don’t do laundry & mow your lawn on the same day! (I had neighbors who did that occasionally – wife would get up early on a nice sunny day & do laundry, then absent-minded hubby would decide it was good lawn mowing weather, get the mower going, & blow cut grass all over everything. Sometimes she wanted to hang HIM on the clothesline when he did that!)

“Mmmmm! Atchoo atchoo atchoo!”

The smell of cut grass is actually the sound of the grass SCREAMING!

My dad went to work for an airline hubbed at Midway in the early ‘50s. We had to move from across the country quickly so they rented for a while. A little village just getting started after the war on the southwest side of Chicago. A lot of swamp land, a lot of wells sunk, a lot of little ranch houses and Cape Cods, no paved roads, we had to pick up our mail at the post office ’cuz there was not USPS route to our part of town yet. To this day, along with new-mown grass, the smell of asphalt paving those dirt roads all over town is the smell of summer to me. That, and the drone of ball games in a darkened living room cooled only by closed venetian blinds and a small fan are my sensory summer. Ah, when you’re young it’s all good.

Over the generations, the perfume remains the same, mostly — but there’s an increase in the smoky-petroleum base…. from mechanical push mower to gasoline powered push mower, and from there to various riding mowers and blowers and such.

Could say it might leave some mowed down, and downright bloomin’ fumin’.

Or not. May depend on the age of the one doing the lawn haircut.

As always, your mileage may vary. (Especially if your model is the GasHog 5000™).