The new March issue of Country Living magazine has a "Promotion" feature (ie an advert done to look like an article) on 'Refresh your home for spring'. Some nice pictures, but the advert is for something you plug into a socket and it gives out a fragrance. Fake fragrance doesn't seem at all country to me!
The (real) smells I associate with a country home (even a one in the city) are:
Freshly made bread
Home made jam and marmelade
Soup
Cakes made with ginger, cloves, mixed spice etc,
Indoor hyacinths
Sweet peas
Other scented cottage garden flowers
Wet dog!
Geranium leaves (From my memories of A level English, T S Elliot thought geraniums represented dryness and aridity, but as both my mother and my father's mother both loved geraniums to me they represent home)
Herbs, including Lavender bags
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