My Three Favorite Scents

I feel I have a very strong sense of smell. This morning at home, I could directly smell a dead rat. Few nights before, when I was in front of my house, I suddenly smelled something like the smell of cow poop while, in fact, I don't have any neighbors who raise cows. My husband jokingly said that maybe there was a ghost passing by because he did not smell anything. A few days ago, while preparing some menus for suhoor, fishy smell of blood struck my nose while I was waking my husband up in our bedroom. Some other ghosts, maybe.☺I once also smelled some random dead animal in the office where I work. At that time, I was the only one who could smell that. When I asked some janitors to search for that smell, they finally found a dead lizard under a cardboard box. The staff sitting near that box amazingly did not smell that dead lizard.

Thanks to my ability to be very sensitive with disgusting odors because I can also feel grateful for my being able to detect nice scents. There are very many kinds of nice scents from flowers to freshly baked cookies. Who doesn't love those scents? Everyone loves them. But I have three favorite scents which I think some persons will love, too.

1. The earthy scent from the rain falling on dry soil

It's refreshingly surprising to know that I am not the only one who loves that scent. The first time I started to like this scent, when I was still young, I felt weird. I questioned myself, "Why do I like this strange smell?" It turns out that some people like to smell that, too. Therefore, when I miss that scent in dry season, I often water the dry soil in my yard just to get that scent.

2. The freshly cut grass

Either in rainy season or dry season, the scent of the grass right after being cut is always indescribably nice. I don't let my front yard be paved. I grow grass instead. It actually consumes much time and energy to cut those grasses with shears when they grow taller, but the nice scent is worth the price. 

3. The brewing coffee in the morning

My morning routine is to drink coffee. I like drinking coffee because I fall in love with the scent of the coffee when the hot water is poured into the cup or mug. And that must be in the morning. When I smell the brewing coffee in the evening, for example, it doesn't smell as special as the morning coffee. Perhaps because I really need to open my eyes to start the day. And the brewing coffee scent can always wake me up.