There’s some scents that stick in your mind, not necessarily perfumes, but simple scents. Bread baking reminds me of childhood afternoons spent at Nan’s, the salt air by the sea brings back summers spent at Cardoness. The musty scent of deep underground tube lines is comforting; you never smell that on the shallow lines.
Then there are other scents that you’d rather not remember: like the scent of the hospital ward I stared upon, a cloying scent that stuck to the back of your throat, quite unlike any hospital I’ve visited since.
There are scents I’ll never forget, scents I crave to smell again. The wet, orange dust of Brasilia, London rain just before it starts to fall, the pine of a South West Scottish forest. I could bottle them up and wear them like perfume.
Unfortunately I’m not so lucky. We get bad smells in our house. I live with two boys, soon to be three. Good smells only come when I release my perfume bottles. Bad smells get covered with things like deodorant, but it never really covers eau de fart that well.
I love perfume, but I’m particular. Diesel’s Fuel for Life and Paco Rabanne’s Black XS are my regular choices. I love Lacoste’s fragrances, especially Touch of Pink, but I don’t love the rash they bring out on my skin.
Of course now I’m pregnant, I can smell better than a dog. A number of our neighbours smoke, and I can tell every time they light up. It doesn’t matter whether they’re out front or back, I can smell it through the letterbox or through the tiny bathroom window that’s open upstairs. The husband thinks it’s funny that I notice. He’s not the one it makes heave. The scent of butter melting on toast turns my stomach, just as scrambled egg does now. I always thought it would be pretty cool to have a wolf’s ability to sniff out scents (yeah, i read too much urban fantasy, I know) but now I have to wonder.
have you ever smelled your own farts???
.-= urbanvox said Wanna Play Sex Lottery?? (Nope… nothing porn about it!) =-.
Glowstars Reply:
October 1st, 2009 at 14:11
Yeah – they’re nowhere near as bad as yours!
I hate the smell of eggs at any given point, eech! But hrm, the smell of underground. Now that sounds good to me.
.-= Melissa Dominic said Girl Talk Thursday :: Scents =-.
Glowstars Reply:
October 2nd, 2009 at 11:25
I’m not sure I should be admitting to liking the smell of the underground. Maybe, in my defence, I can say that I’ve been like that since I was a child so it must be my parents’ fault!
The smell that grossed me out more than anything when I was pregnant was PEAS. I have no idea what triggered that, but UGH. With my first, I was convinced my husband had milk breath for about 2 months. I don’t even know what MILK BREATH is, but I was CERTAIN he had it.
.-= Diane said Girl Talk Thursday – SMELLY =-.
Glowstars Reply:
October 2nd, 2009 at 11:25
I’m not sure I know what milk breath is, but I’m sure it’s undesirable and smelly! lol
Cooking chicken – wooo that would make me heave when I was preggo. Ugh. I hate that side effect of pregnancy, that sensitivity to smells. But… it’s temporary and worth it, right?
.-= Colleen said Smelling Things =-.
Glowstars Reply:
October 2nd, 2009 at 11:26
I’m sure we’ll all consider pregnancy (and motherhood) worth it. Once they’ve moved out and started paying our retirement home fees!
I have a sharp sense of smell, but pregnancy made it almost unbearable. I know that sickly smell of melting butter. I still can’t bring myself to use it and my youngest is 2. Those earthy scents are always the best.
.-= Kelly said GTT: Smelly-good =-.
Glowstars Reply:
October 2nd, 2009 at 11:26
You’ve never smelt a good earthy smell till you’ve smelt Brasilia! There’s nothing like it.
Bread bread bread! It always reminds me of my grandmother. Its such a good smell!
.-= Drawing Cowboys said Girl Talk: Smells =-.
I love the smell of bread
Mmm… baking bread. Good one.
The smell of smoke always made me queasy. When I was pregnant it was even worse. I feel sorry for you!
.-= Cat said Girl Talk Thursday =-.
I really can’t remember, I think I have blanked it all out
) at least I don’t have to trawl the archives to see if i missed where you announced the sex of bubba
congrats
xc
.-= Mrs Hojo said Three Key Members Off =-.