You Smell

Scent has been on my mind a lot the last few months. For one reason, as I write my paranormal book on werewolves, they have a superb sense of smell and I have to integrate that constantly. For another, I've started washing my laundry in scented laundry soap.

Steve is sensitive to many dyes and fragrances, so over the years I stopped using any laundry soap but the "free" variety -- no fragrance or dye added. Slowly, over the last 14 years I've also stopped buying the expensive perfume I use to love. I tried some cheaper stuff once or twice but didn't like it. As a result of both these things, I end up with no scent but my deodorant on.

It got to the point that when I passed someone in a store that smelled good, I wanted to turn and just follow them, enjoying the fragrance. So I decided to start washing our laundry in separate loads so I could go back to using detergent that smells good, and adding Downy. I also recently started buying nice 'girly' bath soap.

Having been without so many of these fragrances for so long I realize to an extent many don't how many "smells" we put on ourselves in a daily biases. We wash with fragrant soap, wash and condition our hair with fragrant products, style hair with fragrant products, wash our clothes with fragrant detergent, use fragrant dryer sheets, use deodorant (I hope), moisturize with fragrant lotions, use fragrant sun block, and sometimes we add cologne or perfume.

Seriously, to someone (or thing) with a strong sense of smell, we must stink.