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Today’s Ten on Tuesday<\/a> topic appealed to me not just because I’m just home from a long drive that followed a depressing vet diagnosis and a stomach ailment (just so you don’t feel too bad for me, the visit also included a birthday party, a baby, and a best friend) and could use a quick list-as-post fodder, but also because smell is such a powerful emotion-producer.<\/p>\n

Here are ten of my favorite scents:<\/p>\n

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  1. Vanilla — It’s the smell of all great baked items and the most basic and beautiful base for ice cream.<\/li>\n
  2. The ocean — Salt, sunscreen (or anything coconutty that reminds me of it), drying seaweed… Anyone who tells you they love the smell of the shore except for low tide<\/em> doesn’t really love the smell of the shore. It’s all or nothing, baby.<\/li>\n
  3. Pizza — If the scents of tomatoes, yeast, and cheese don’t waft past you as you open the door of a pizzeria, back out the door and run like the wind, because it will not satisfy that longing deep inside you.<\/li>\n
  4. Freshly washed hair — Particularly if it’s baby shampoo, but just about any will do.<\/li>\n
  5. Laundry dried outside — The dryer makes for the coziest towels, but otherwise nothing beats laundry just pulled in from the line.<\/li>\n
  6. Play-doh — I’m not proud. I have several containers I keep around as aromatherapy on bad days.<\/li>\n
  7. Crayola crayons — Did you know my generation is the first one to have equally vivid positive memories of manufactured items as of natural ones?<\/li>\n
  8. Sun-kissed berries — Strawberries, raspberries, blackberries: It really doesn’t matter which.<\/li>\n
  9. Fresh flowers — Roses (ones that actually smell rosy, as opposed to some of the more long-lasting recent strains they’ve developed), lilacs, clover, violets, hyacinths, and lavender are all simply lovely.<\/li>\n
  10. The weather changing — You can smell snow coming in the winter. There’s an electric smell just before a summer thunderstorm. Leaves mouldering under your feet mean fall has arrived. And deep, wet, earthworm-turned earth says spring is right around the corner.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    What smells make you dance with joy?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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