'I inhaled deeply. “Ummm, baby!” I exclaimed
“What did you expect her to smell like? Dog?” asked my teenage son.
I gave him a stink eye.
“Babies smell good. You used to smell good when you were a baby,” I retorted.
“I still smell good,” he argued.
“No, now you smell like boy. Teenage boy. It’s a combination of dirty socks and too much body spray. That smell is only appealing to teenage girls and video game manufacturers.”
At last. A wittily written article on experiencing scent, drawing on the singularly pleasurable sniffing experience of smelling that sweet, clean, cozy baby smell...and contrasting it with how teenagers grow up to smell.
You can read the whole (hilarious and so true) thing on this link.
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Tuesday, December 13, 2011
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