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I saw a comment online where a european person was like āwhat do you mean Americans can smell that itās going to rain??ā which made me think of this lol. I canāt believe not everyone can smell when itās going to rain.
So mine first and maybe someone else also smells this: I can smell when someone has been to the beach, which some may say would be obvious but itās not. I live and grew up on an island thatās not even a mile wide so I know what Iām smelling is different, itās not the smell of the actual water, seaweed, sand or anything; thereās this specific smell thatās almost like melons when someone has been at the beach but not even necessarily in the water. Especially if they were walking on the beach in the morning. I put together what I was really smelling eventually because say I would be working inside all day and someone would come in to where I work, before I knew what I was smelling I would be like āoh my gosh, what perfume are you wearing, it smells kind of melon-y?ā and I would get something along the lines of āIām not wearing anyā or āI didnāt put perfume on because all I did this morning was walk on the beach.ā Sometimes some lady would look a very confused over it even because it was like she had no idea what smell I was talking about and knew she didnāt put on perfume lol.
Someone else tell me they know the smell Iām talking aboutš
May 27, 2025
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Not me personally, but I listened to a podcast awhile back about a woman who could smell certain diseases, including alzheimers. Apparently she is not the only one, I believe itās been studied more in recent yearsāreally blew my mind when I learned about it.
May 27, 2025
@REALLYJEAN thatās so crazy! Reminds me of how they say dogs can smell things like cancer.
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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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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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just like out in the world. Today I smelled lilac blossom, sourdough bread, rain, green green grass, and mango
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Also, I was shopping around today for a custom leather stamp to start stamping the leather journal covers I make. Thought I found someone to make it until they said to send the logo file over and theyāll send back AI created renderings of a mockup to approve. Now I am starting the search all overš
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Today was one of those bad days where it causes a headache and you feel exhausted from everything, but somehow a nice long walk outside made things seem a little better. Fresh air and thinking or daydreaming while listening to the sounds of outside.
I sometimes find myself taking for granted the place that I live, I work or Iām too tired and I use that as an excuse to not go outside more. Yet every time I get the chance to spend the time outside, I canāt say I ever regret it.
Iām going to make it a goal for myself to try and take a walk outside at least a few times a week.
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