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Truck exhaust in rural Oregon- those areas are the closest thing to silent hill when the fog rolls in the morning, and that fog I swear makes the smell thicker, it’s sappier when the diesel is soaked in rain
Certain dry erase marker- the best have generic branding or none at all just from palm erosion , frayed & half-way to dry. They smell like ripe pear & Isopropyl. that’s when it’s perfect.
“Too clean“ air- it happens every once in a while but it will be a slightly medical or clinical, usually a little bit of bleach but off a very specific floor in your childhood(always linoleum) and then it’s there and you remember all the things that got attached to it but before you can figure out the notes it’s gone.
Payless plastic- the sometimes overwhelming artifical smell of a department store has it too
The pink soap- I used to milk doctors offices and public restrooms like dairy cows into ziplock bags so I could have it at home. its Good soap.
Skinny cigarette: capris & Virginia slims have that specific creamy black tea element when you smoke and or smell them, I think slims should also be incense.
Certain dry erase marker- the best have generic branding or none at all just from palm erosion , frayed & half-way to dry. They smell like ripe pear & Isopropyl. that’s when it’s perfect.
“Too clean“ air- it happens every once in a while but it will be a slightly medical or clinical, usually a little bit of bleach but off a very specific floor in your childhood(always linoleum) and then it’s there and you remember all the things that got attached to it but before you can figure out the notes it’s gone.
Payless plastic- the sometimes overwhelming artifical smell of a department store has it too
The pink soap- I used to milk doctors offices and public restrooms like dairy cows into ziplock bags so I could have it at home. its Good soap.
Skinny cigarette: capris & Virginia slims have that specific creamy black tea element when you smoke and or smell them, I think slims should also be incense.
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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
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
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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. I’m thinking of my grandmother’s 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!)
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👃Wes Anderson wrote it best when he said "its the smells we finally don't forget" (or something like that). No better, nostalgic, melancholy rush than when a random coffee smells exactly the same as one from your favorite cafe from years ago. Or when hand soap at a restaurant smells just like her. Such a crazy experience and I cherish each time it happens
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it’s fawn season rn and these lil guys are just everywhere right now. A great surprise on my way to the doctors office. I said “your kids are adorable by the way“ cus sometimes Deer look back at you like they know your thoughts, so I always talk back just in case.
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This love came on shuffle and I had to hang my head and think of what we could’ve had. It’s absolutely tragic.
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