What is your favorite scent?
Submitted by Erinen.
My favorite scent is the scent of freshly baked bread. Now, supermarkets over here have an oven where they finish half-baked scones and stuff, and that smells nice, too, but it's not quite what I mean. It's more like...
Walking along a street in a north african city (Think, Marrakesh, or Tunis) early in the morning, the sun just came up, and the city smells of all kinds of stuff - the still leaded gas of the old vehicles, white paint, sheep, sewers, fish and meat at the market...and then you turn a corner, and your nose is suddenly full of heavenly fresh-bread smell, long before you see the stacks of baguettes.
Or...
A winter day at a farm, and after a long walk in the snowy woods, you come back to the house, where some good soul used the afternoon for baking a whole load of fresh loafs... Mmmhhh...
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