Hmm...candy canes! Interesting, interesting...but no, no candy canes. Am...am I the only woman who makes this scent? It isn't always there...only when you get flushed and closer to orgasm. I think the no-hands method concentrates the scent (since you have clothes on) rather than letting it all just float off in the air.
Oh, yes, very normal! I think if you practiced longer you could work up to full orgasms. You can get a little tingle/pleasant itchy feeling of an orgasm just by doing a few squeezes...but to have a full orgasm, Paloma, I've found you really have to put the time in.
Oh, most definitely women can have no-hands orgasms, Tore!
I first had orgasms by climbing poles when I was in 3rd grade or so during recess...THAT was a nice surprise...then as a young teen I got my hands on a book about women's sexuality, called the Hite Report
The Hite Report, A Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality, which I found among my parents' boxes in the attic. If I had a Bible growing up, that was certainly it!

I read that book cover to cover many times.
The Hite report contained quotes from women describing all their sexual experiences, with a WHOLE SECTION ON MASTURBATION!!! I read about women who used the no-hands method and thought, hmm...this would be MUCH more efficient and easy than climbing poles! It took some time to learn but I'm glad I did.
Actually, once I learned the no-hands method it wasn't until I was 17 when I decided, huh, well, if I'm ever going to have sex with someone, I better learn how to have an orgasm with my legs open. It actually took some time to learn the "hands-method." I've always been a very good student, though. And we biologists do like to know exactly how the human body works...plus experiment
EDIT: Ha ha! I just read that Time Magazine said this about The Hite Report: "A frankness and directness not usually seen in print . . . Many female readers can closely identify with these intimate revelations." Oh, did I ever identify!!