How does the smell of freshly cut grass affect you?

i dont know, this year my allergies have been really bothering me and the grass seems to be bugging me too. so, i work on wednesdays anyway (the day they cut the grass) so hopefully that will help some! (where in canada are you???)

I really do love this smell too! I can't say I particularly dislike the sound of someone mowing the garden either because I connect it with people being out and about and that is generally quite a nice feeling for me. But coming back to the topic, freshly cut grass has a smell like nothing else, it is a unique, fresh and almost 'happy' smell if that makes sense!

It reminds me of how much I hate yard work! Actually, last summer I was responsible for maintaining my father's lawn--all 2+ acres of it! Actually I got a killer tan (when there's no chance of anyone seeing you, you mow topless because you're out there for at least four hours!) but it took so much of my time last year! I'm so glad I have a landlord now!

Like you I really love the smell of freshly cut grass. I'm not exactly sure if it's nice memories that it brings or it if somehow it just affects me so positively that my mood improves by a few degrees:) I don't think I necessarily remember good things when I smell it, although in a deeper level it might, but it's just one of those things that brings me a sense of well being and happiness.( just like the smell of the ocean does to me as well )

We are in Tennessee and have been cutting grass for the last month. I love the smell. It is a fresh clean smell early on in the season. By September-October it smells different, more like straw. My parents owned a summer home on the eastern shore of maryland and the smell of grass takes me back to those days when life was simple and easy and people were kind to each other.

let me just say.. its heaven for the nose LOL

I dont like the smell.. i think it smells gross.. lol i'm not just being negative.. i hope.. lol i just dont like it!! i have no idea what it is.. it kinda bothers my head i think.. gives me a headache. i live in an apartment complex on the forth floor, so i didn't smell it the other day when the landscapers where down there.. though there is not much green grass to cut down there yet!

I adore the smell of freshly mowed grass. I always have. I remember as a teen when Herbal Essences came out and their shampoo smelled like grass. I used tons of bottles of their shampoo. They changed their fragrance in it, so I switched. I find the sound of a lawn mower sooo soothing. I remember as a kid when my dad would mow the lawn I would get sleepy and the next thing I knew I was asleep. To this day lawn mowers have the effect on me.

i love the smell grass . i love it when it is raining you could actually smell and feel the fresh scents that grass brings to the air. it brings some coolness in the breeze. but here in my city there is no grass nearby.

I really love that smell of freshly cut grass! I guess when this scent caresses your nostrils then you know that summer is very near if it hasn't arrived already. I guess that there are memories that I have in the past. When I was a small child I used to linger around the garden with my good old dad and he was forever cutting the grass, I really enjoyed those days. Well, summer is almost here now and I'm sure looking forward to receiving that long awaited smell once more. Andrew

I can't agree with you more. I absolutely adore the smell of grasses.. Sometimes too much give me a headache. But normally i associate the smell of grass with happy thoughts of childhood..

I like the smell aslo and arouse fresh spring in nature world. All are reseda or green with the all kinds of little flowers among gress. Spring , Autumn are poetry seasons.

you know, in where i come from, 90% of the people live in high-rise esttes, so there's no way i can smell the grass from the 9th storey

i live in tx and it rained for two weeks almost straight, my grass was so tall, i love the smell of grass being cut, brings me back to when i was a little girl with my dad, sitting on his lap on the riding lawn mower while we cut the grass. he even let me steer, i remember the first time he let me drive the way the grass looked when i got done. still brings a smile to my face.

I haven't experienced this smell for AGES! When I think about the smell though, the first thing that comes to mind is me having a sense of accomplishment because it means I've just finished mowing my own lawn! It was never a job I enjoyed very much at all and I even did it for extra cash too, so you can imagine how motivated I was doing THAT job. The end result was always a pleasure to behold, but man the journey to get to that point sucked!

I sneeze, I sneeze, I sneeze! I have terrible allergies to most grasses so I try to avoid newly cut grass. It smells great but makes me feel just awful.

Hi CanadaGal, Luckily I do not suffer from hayfever and absolutely adore the smell of freshly mowed grass, I even go out and collect lumps of it up and put into the rabbit section the garden for them, saves on buying meadow hay for them LOL. The memories it brings back for me is rolling down the hills getting covered in the stuff and mum getting annoyed and me laughing, tomboy at heart I guess LOL. Huggles.Ellie :D

The smell of fresh cut grass gives me severe asthma attacks. Not sure why, it wasn't a problem when I was younger, but now when I hear the mowers goign I have to rush into my house and shut the windows or spend a good chunk of my day breathing through a nebulizer. I'm still happy that spring has sprung though!

I have hay fever, so although it puts me in a fantastic mood, im sneezing and rubbing my eyes while smiling

My neighbor was just trying to cut the grass yesterday! We had several days of really warm weather followed by several days of gentle rain. All of the grass has grown like crazy! So while there was a break in the rain, my neighbor tried to tame his lawn. Every 5 minutes, the mower would cut out because it was so clogged with grass! He did finally get through it all - just in time for the rain the rest of the week! I also like the smell of fresh cut grass. It just seems so fresh to me. The fresh cut hay fields are the best, though. Depending on what kind of hay they are growing, it is sometimes quite sweet smelling. Just makes the warm weather that much more luxurious! I remember being a child and always having to rake grass if we waited too long to cut it. My Dad would use the mower to cut all of the grass. We would come behind him with the wheelbarrow and rakes. The thing I remember the most was always have bare feet while we did this. By the time we went inside, my feet were always stained green. I thought that was the coolest thing ever!