Sniff Sniff

I do not have a keen sense of smell. It can be annoying at times. At other times it is a blessing.

I love the smells of flowers. Unfortunately I cannot always smell them. My favorite smell is a clean baby.

Soon after I moved back here to Iowa It rained. I love rain. The air is so clean after. And the petrichor was a smell I really missed in the city. Petrichor is that earthy smell when rain first falls on dry earth. 

A smell that is overpowering is the dust on the prairie grasses that grow beside the road. If a person were to stand in the midst of the grasses I believe the person could smother and die. 

One day I called my mother. My youngest sister answered the phone so we talked for a dew minutes. Suddenly I asked her if she was eating Cheerios. She was.

She wondered why I asked. It was because I could smell them!

Of course each of us has our own distinctive smell. Even though my patents have died there have been times I would smell one of them. It has been a long time now.

When I moved back here I discovered I even liked the smell of fertilizer if it is not too strong. I really dislike the ammonium smell of pig farms. It is so strong and burns the nose.

I would really like to know some favorite smells and some least favorite smells.