The first breath of cold air when you step outside on a winter morning
people writing by hand on public transit
The sound of cicadas
The moment you Feel caught in midair when you jump off a ledge into the water
The smell of sunscreen, sweat, and salt water
The first snow of the year
Peonies
Freckles or tattoos on the back of someone’s hands
The sound of shoes on marble floor in a large empty room
Any time someone cries from happiness
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the smell of rain in early spring
an electrical storm on a hot July night
the wind on your back when you ski downhill
better than yesterday
Jan 29, 2025
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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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Walking home from work in winter fog??? And seeing the tops of bare trees almost get lost in it??? Looking up to see someone’s apartment window open in January??? Smelling a passerby‘s cigarette smoke mixed with cold humid air??? The world felt closer and why did I almost tear up.
Jan 24, 2024
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Jun 15, 2024
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Put on the robe, turn on adult swim or whatever, crank the ac, eat a late night snack in one bed and sleep in the other. The freedom of impersonal liminal space.
Oct 21, 2024
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hundreds of thousands of times over
The context may be different but no emotion is completely new— i can cope
Aug 1, 2024