North Texas does not really experience much of autumn, but I could always tell when it had arrived by the smell. I remember running down my stairs one morning following the scent floating through the windows my mom had opened! The best smell!
Honorable mention is breakfast tacos!!
Mar 10, 2025
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The smell of the midwestern wind takes me back to the happiest times of my life, the smell of morning coming through open windows with curtains that blow in the breeze. Iām thinking of my grandmotherās dairy farm in Cadott, Wisconsin, way way to the north of the state. The smell of a spring day. The smell of a flower. The smell of peppermint tea in the depths of winter. The sanctimonious (yes it is holy!) smell of your bed having gone unwashed, forgotten, for weeks. Good god, stop to smell the roses if you can. I just walked around my apartment smelling three things: the rosemary plant by my window (wonderful!), the donut holes sitting on the counter (they smell like how heaven must feel!), and the cajun seasoning in the cabinet over the stove (I sneezed for five minutes straight!)
Jun 10, 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 itās one that mass media canāt reach. Itās amazing that itās 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, didnāt 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 wasnāt death ā it was losing my sense of smell. I just know that itās 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 donāt know how to describe the smell but if you live somewhere where you get all four season you know that smell. I also love saying āI can smell rainā before it hits. Makes me feel like Iām about to get into some long monologue about the beauty of fall while sitting on a porch.
Aug 30, 2024
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So tranquil so beautiful! Nothing quite like it!
Feb 25, 2025
Watched this movie every single weekend at my nanaās house because she had it saved to her dvr. Gave me an extreme desire for independence at a very young age (it has carried me through to today!) and inspired me to make pancakes (waffles) on my own every week as a spry 6 year old.
Mar 11, 2025
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Handcream!!!!!! chapstick, my book, gum
Headphones!!!!!! my mta card and my Irish luck cardš
Mar 2, 2025