Comments on: Ooooh, That Smell http://la-florecita.com/2008/06/30/ooooh-that-smell/ Wed, 28 Dec 2011 19:39:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: laflorecita http://la-florecita.com/2008/06/30/ooooh-that-smell/#comment-519 laflorecita Sun, 06 Jul 2008 04:04:33 +0000 http://laflorecita.wordpress.com/?p=611#comment-519 Yup, that sounds about right! Yup, that sounds about right!

]]> By: blythe http://la-florecita.com/2008/06/30/ooooh-that-smell/#comment-518 blythe Fri, 04 Jul 2008 19:24:56 +0000 http://laflorecita.wordpress.com/?p=611#comment-518 Oh my gosh, I think I might know the smell you're talking about. Or something close. I smell most while in the woods... I think of it as coming from thick undergrowth, mounds of dry leaves and pine needles that were dampened by rain several days previously. Then when the sun comes up, it starts to dry everything out... you can almost smell the sunlight and the dust in the air... but the undergrowth is so thick that some of the moisture stays trapped there, and it releases this warm, earthy, sweet smell as well. It is absolutely intoxicating, and when I run across it, I want to lie down on the forest floor (and sometimes do). And there are some smells that often get paired with it: of sun-warmed bodies, human or animal; of late-blooming flowers, some sweet and some with a noticeable spicy edge; of concrete, sometimes heated and sometimes in shade when I encounter the smell while out on a bike path. Is it anything like that? Oh my gosh, I think I might know the smell you’re talking about. Or something close. I smell most while in the woods… I think of it as coming from thick undergrowth, mounds of dry leaves and pine needles that were dampened by rain several days previously. Then when the sun comes up, it starts to dry everything out… you can almost smell the sunlight and the dust in the air… but the undergrowth is so thick that some of the moisture stays trapped there, and it releases this warm, earthy, sweet smell as well. It is absolutely intoxicating, and when I run across it, I want to lie down on the forest floor (and sometimes do). And there are some smells that often get paired with it: of sun-warmed bodies, human or animal; of late-blooming flowers, some sweet and some with a noticeable spicy edge; of concrete, sometimes heated and sometimes in shade when I encounter the smell while out on a bike path.

Is it anything like that?

]]> By: laflorecita http://la-florecita.com/2008/06/30/ooooh-that-smell/#comment-517 laflorecita Fri, 04 Jul 2008 14:04:00 +0000 http://laflorecita.wordpress.com/?p=611#comment-517 Actually, I tend to smell it in the hottest part of the day . . . I don't know, I need a botanist! Actually, I tend to smell it in the hottest part of the day . . . I don’t know, I need a botanist!

]]> By: mmmm...why don't i know as many smell words as names of paint chips? http://la-florecita.com/2008/06/30/ooooh-that-smell/#comment-516 mmmm...why don't i know as many smell words as names of paint chips? Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:06:04 +0000 http://laflorecita.wordpress.com/?p=611#comment-516 is it a scent that often appears really early in the morning but sometimes around twilight? like whatever makes it only exhales when the sun goes away? there is this smell that's almost like a...well, it's so sharp - not pungent - just clear. i've smelled it in houston and in austin. dad one time named a tree it's from, but i don't remember. this isn't going to work, is it? well, if you figure it out at naked, let me in on the secret. i love you. is it a scent that often appears really early in the morning but sometimes around twilight? like whatever makes it only exhales when the sun goes away? there is this smell that’s almost like a…well, it’s so sharp – not pungent – just clear. i’ve smelled it in houston and in austin. dad one time named a tree it’s from, but i don’t remember. this isn’t going to work, is it? well, if you figure it out at naked, let me in on the secret. i love you.

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