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my sense of smell is terrible. it borders on nonexistent, to the point that i literally can barely smell anything most of the time. when i can though, and when it's good, it's always very nice to be able to smell. enjoy the good smells around you, even if they're unconventional (gas, smoke, sharpie, etc)
Jan 31, 2024
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I think our sense of smell is one of the most beautiful things about our bodies. You can find me standing in a pine forest, huffing cardamom, taking pics of soaps in restaurant WCs, getting a headache in the fragrance section of the bespoke homegoods store. Some art incorporates smell, such as paint that effuses the scent of shoveled soil or an orchestra accompanied by scent cannons firing plumes across the audience, but I cherish this intangible gift of ours because it’s one that mass media can’t reach. It’s amazing that it’s connected so closely to our memory -- that you can smell a cologne or the inside of a tent and instantly hallucinate a school dance or a family camping trip you forgot about or, at the very least, didn’t mean to think about so vividly today. I know this will sound privileged and silly, but as a relatively young person my biggest fear from the pandemic wasn’t death — it was losing my sense of smell. I just know that it’s something I would miss so much. It enhances taste and experience and I would go crazy without it.
here is a very incomplete list of things I think smell good:
-tomato vines
-Shoyeido friend of pine incense
-garlic, raw and cooked
-anise
-palo santo
-coffee, raw and cooked
-armpits (lemme get in there)
-briney ocean
-tennis balls
-old lifejackets
-bergamot / patchouli stuff from L:A Bruket
Mar 7, 2024
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I think that walking through daily life, smell is an underappreciated and underutilized sense. Just as a beautiful sunset or bird song in the park can ignite a really pleasant feeling in us, so does getting a big breath of that humid air after a rainfall, or of a stranger’s heavy floral perfume, or the exhaust of an old passing car.
once I was walking to class, really stressed and in my head about things, and just remembering that I have this whole other sensory facility to enjoy liberated me wonderfully from the internal spiral. it smelled like rainforest in vancouver that day, as it does today.
Jan 30, 2024
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long covid be damned, but my ability to sit in most subway cars without experiencing the gut repulsion of revolting odors other passengers suffer through is a goddamn super power
Mar 20, 2024
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i'm pretty sure i met up with her last tuesday. might've been two weeks ago tho
Jan 31, 2024
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i usually get chocolate chips and whatever nut you have altho personally i love almonds and then craisins or raisins or pretzels or whatever else u have . also if u are someone that has fruit or berries in ur home often, chocolate and raspberries/blueberries/strawberries/pineapple/etc is always good, and it's always fun to put the chocolate chips inside the raspberry. i might just be easily entertained tho. invest in chocolate chips they go with everything and they're also good for a small sweet snack if u don't want to commit to like. a cake. or something.
Jan 31, 2024