Decaying Leaves Makes Autumn Best

[Singularis]

One watertight reason that autumn is the best season of all for the pipesmoker is because it is the season that smells most like tobacco ... at least to this decerning supersmeller.

I was out walking with my wife and two little kids through the neighborhood, and I kept getting delicious wafts of what can only be described as "my tobacco cellar drawer".

I happen to keep most of my tinned jars in the drawers of my desk, since I am only about 3-4 years into TAD and the cellaring obsession. Anyway, the similarity of aromas -- between the decaying amber and golden and blaze orange and burnt umber leaves, and aging tobacco -- is unmistakable. It also helped that I wasn't smoking a pipe while walking (a very rare occurrence) because of some congestive cold symptoms -- which meant I was better able to smell the leaves.

Anyone else have a similar experience?

 

[SBC]

How's it going over there in Wausau, Neighbor?
Yeah, I'm with you. The mustiness of these decaying aging and fermenting leaves hits the same part of my soul that pipe smoke hits.

 

[bullet08]

In NC, it's rotting pine needles and pine cones. And dead pine trees with its rosin deposit. I hate every one of those things. I miss beautiful view of Bear Mountain up in NY.

 

[Optimistic Pessimist]

In NC, it's rotting pine needles and pine cones. And dead pine trees with its rosin deposit. I hate every one of those things. I miss beautiful view of Bear Mountain up in NY.

Ha! I hated having to pick up the pine cones in the yard before mowing as a kid.

I love walking through Umstead State Park where there is a plethora of trees, we have over 600 species in NC, and that wonderful musky-sweet smell of "fermenting" vegetation. Autumn is by far the best season of the year, imho.

 

[Briar Lee]

The Ozarks in fall is so beautiful even we who take the privilege of living here for granted, are intoxicated by the splendor.


Most of our hardwood forests are oaks, hickories, ash and other hardwoods, resulting in a cacophony of colors.

Hardwoods are so thick here, we have to clear them to build fences.



And of course every fall, the local hillbilly Jam sessions sing Moon Mullican’s classic.

 

[simong]

Enchanting image of an autumnal Lunt there @Singularis .
Don’t think you could better than that, apart from strolling through the Black Forest, smoking Gawith’s Scottish Autumn Flake & listening to Tony Bennett’s ‘when autumn leaves’ on the Walkman maybe?
Unfortunately my nostrils haven’t smelled anything apart from St. Bruno since 1988! Lol
Must dig out a tin of the autumn flake & change that.

 

[Optimistic Pessimist]

Seems like this has been a great year for fall colors. Couldn't get this big guy completely in frame. There a lot of old trees in Oakwood Cemetery here in Raleigh. I would love to see upstate NY in the Fall some day.

 

[vosBghos]

In NC, it's rotting pine needles and pine cones. And dead pine trees with its rosin deposit. I hate every one of those things. I miss beautiful view of Bear Mountain up in NY.

Over here in Waynesville NC it’s fall colors all aglow but there are those pesky bears trying to fill up before the winter nap , gotta be aware when a lunting …

 

[Chasing Embers]

Smells somewhere between vanilla and baking spices here. Something like deertongue.

 

[Peter Turbo]

Best time of year here in the Northeast, being a gardener for my profession also helps to enjoy it to the fullest.

Driving around the past week or two has been amazing, thought we were going to lose a lot of leaves early to the nasty drought we had all summer but looks like the fall rain kept them from dropping early.

 

[agnosticpipe]

I grew up in Michigan and as a kid loved raking a playing in the leaves. Back then you could burn them in the street gutter and I liked the smell of the smoke too.
Now in mid Mississippi there is some color in the fall and I love the smell of the decaying of the leaves. Can't rake the leaves now, but just sitting on the porch watching them fall.

Here's my front yard as of yesterday.

 

[kcghost]

The only smell I get is when people light their fireplaces.

 

[KruegerFlap]

The trees in my yard in southern Ohio are looking great too. I have always liked fall and like it even more while enjoying a pipe full of tobacco!