a man should smell of clean washing and nice citrus aftershave. this is the best smell ever.
a man who smokes, eats too much garlic, and/or drinks coffee is just not the same. you sit or lie there looking all polite or romantic or sexy or whatever, but inside your nose is all wrinkled and you are thinking "your breath reeeeeks and you clearly think that chewing gum covers it, well it fucking doesn't."

there is a certain chemical, no idea what it is, but when i smell it occasionally, i am instantly transported back to the hand gel in the hospital at 3am waiting in a gutted sobbing panic for the doctors to tell me whether my mum was going to come round or not, and then 15 times a day whilst she was in a coma, every time i went in or out of the ward... it gives me cold sweats when i smell it now.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:46, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

when my mom was in the hospital the morgue was below the lobby entrance
as the week went by the smell got worse and worse, I don't know if it was just my imagination or what
I will never ever forget that smell
( Lisette von Falcon, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:53, Reply)

no, it is a very evocative powerful thing, the sense of smell

( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 2 Mar 2011, 15:57, Reply)