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I think I’ve inherited my mother’s nose.

As a child I had a healthy obsession with fire, like a lot of other pyromaniac monsters of a certain age. Fair enough you might say. But I could never ever get away with my secret match lighting desires as my mum, as soon as she come back through the front door would just know that I’d been lighting matches - no matter how many windows I opened or how long ago I’d given in to the fiery demon in my head. She also had the predictive ability a few years later, of knowing when I was _about_ to light an incense stick and rush up the stairs to tell me “put it out!”

She could smell things before they happened. Spooky woman. I’m wondering if my nose will develop these skills later in life?

One of the (many) memories of that girls’ school where we went, was a smell of jam that followed me for all of the 5 years I was there. (That and Whale pulling her socks up in French when Mrs Davie asked her what the time was in French, a memory both me and Mrs P-G wont ever let her forget) No-one else reported such jamness, and it almost drove me to distraction. But now, with the benefit of being older and *cough* wiser, I can see that I’ve been smelling smells that aren’t…errr…audible to the normal nose for some time, and just maybe, it explains the aftershave obsessions. Possibly.

Anyway, yesterday just having a quick walk around chav town where I work, all I could smell was airports (odd, given that Chav town is bloody miles from any). It was really strong aviation fuel, and I realised that I really like that smell. Again, associated with nice things like flying away and going somewhere interesting.

So, in no particular order - some smells that I think are smashing. Please feel free to chip in with your own favourite smells

• Davidoff (obviously)
• Patchouli oil (sorry, that’s a bit gothy)
• Aviation fuel
• Petrol in general
• Fence paint - creosote
• Chocolate
• Vicks Vaporub
• Weston-Super-Mare

-moosh