Dream About smells

If you have dreamed about smelling in a dream: You may have worries about your past experiences, Some people may think that you are hindering them, that you are getting in their way or that you need to force them, and they may pull you into arguments or power struggles. To have a smell or a good topic in a dream means that you will be happy, and to smell bad in your dream indicates that your troubles will increase, your hopes will decrease, you will have a stressful period and you will act with anger.

Martha Clarke Interpretation

Rarely we dream of scents that are not from the physical space where we are sleeping. Otherwise, the smells in dreams have a highly sensuous connotation.

It is possible that the unconscious has launched a compensation mechanism in response to lack of satisfactory sexual intercourse. Although sharp and unpleasant odors are very rare, if you perceived one, it means that you are reacting to the attitudes of others.

Each scent has a specific meaning. Mothballs allude to scandal; ginger, to love affairs; jasmine, to true spiritual experience; lavender, happiness in relationships; and nutmeg, deception. In general, a bad smell means disease; and a good one, health. Perfume denotes beauty and pride. To notice a good smell emanated by someone promises new friends; but if someone detects your odor, it is indicative of lost friendships.

Dr. Mıchael Lennox Interpretation

There are dreams in which the sense of smell is activated. Smell is the most primitive of all of the senses, and there are powerful sense memories that are evoked when certain smells are present. This type of deep memory- response may be what is triggering a dream in which smell plays a role.

If there is something specific that is being smelled in the dream, use that to inform your interpretation.

Patrica Telesco Interpretation

(see Incense, Perfume)

On the dream plane, smells frequently engender memories of past experiences and our reactions to those experiences. Like other senses, the way we feel about each aroma is very personal, and should be interpreted accordingly.