Good Scents
I’m sure we’ve all heard over and over again about how powerful and primal the sense of smell is to people; how just a whiff of a particular aroma can bring back a cascade of memories and images. Well, at the risk of being clich; here are a few of my Good Scents. Not necessarily pleasant or bad, just ones I find particularly interesting, in no particular odor, er order. I’ve intentionally omitted commercial fragrances.
- Fresh Cut Grass
- Campfire smoke
- Newly tanned leather
- Honeysuckles on a warm night
- The Arizona desert
- Particularly pungent cheese
- Hot baked chocolate-chip cookies
- Fireworks/Gunsmoke
- Coffee
- The ocean
- Heated amber
- Old books
- Mint
- The ozone air before a storm
- Moss
- A lover’s flesh (particularly the nape of the neck)
- Fresh baked bread
- Rough hewn or natural stone
- Good red wine
- Chocolate
- Newly cut wood
- Seafood
- Garlic
- Sun dried laundry
- Camphor
- Lavender
- Humus (the dirt, not the food)
- Cedar
- Burning circuitry
Not particularly comprehensive or scientific list, just whatever came to mind.
