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Juliet Wilson's avatar

One of my favourite scents is that of lime (linden) trees, which bloom for a couple of weeks at this time of year in Scotland.

I lived in Malawi for a couple of years in the early 1990s and I have a beach wrap that still even now smells of the beach of Lake Malawi.

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Sharon Hoover's avatar

Peace is my all time favorite rose scent. I love jasmine. I am so super sensitive to scents that I can’t even go into Bed, Bath and Beyond and places like that. Both my sister and I inherited our “nose like a bloodhound” from our mother. Cary and Logan were barred from cologne. Me not wearing it is a given. I have to smell his shampoo and deodorant before he buys it. Which means I have to buy it. Now that they add horribly invasive scents to EVERYTHING these days, it has become a disability. It makes my head sick. Only candles I can tolerate are certain balsam ones at Christmas.

As far as the smell of a skunk, I tend to agree with you. It actually smells like Starbucks coffee to both my sister and I. I think in is the strength of the scent that is so bad.

Enjoy your writings! They are the only ones I read on substack. They wear you out with them.

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