You know how sometimes your nose picks up a scent and you just can’t identify it? Well, Sam and I are not having that problem right now. What we smell are banana cupcakes that Kathleen is baking in the kitchen. They smell wonderful! The recipe calls for ground up bananas and butter and cinnamon – all favorite ingredients of mine; she’s going to top the cupcakes off with salted caramel frosting – sour cream, butter, caramel sauce and chopped cashews.
Good God! My wife is trying to kill me!
Of course some smells that kill aren’t as fragrant. I have no idea and don’t want to know what the gas in the Auschwitz ovens smelled like. It’s said that some gas is odorless, like LPG, but that a scent is added to that so it doesn’t kill you totally without warning. I read somewhere that the cyanide gas used in the gas chamber to execute murderers smelled sort of like almonds. Again, I really don’t want to know. Being stopped in traffic behind a diesel truck can be rather off-putting.
I guess I got to thinking about this smell thing because some are so good – like banana cupcakes – and some are so bad. Somebody in church last Sunday must have just dug a winter coat out of mothballs. Phew! Remember mothballs? That smell was so bad it almost put me off my communion wine. I was tempted to dip my nose as far into the communion cup as possible and sniff long and deep. But other people were waiting behind me.
Occasionally, somebody will fart in a pew nearby. That’s bad too. I like incense a lot better.
Perfume is nice. Some ladies wear really nice perfume, so nice that I’m sorely tempted to walk up to them and sniff their necks. If I were a dog maybe I could get away with sniffing women, but alas, I’m not a dog.
A smell that’s pretty prevalent in the Pacific Northwest and other wet climes this time of year is mold and mildew. Boy! Even in a modern, well-heated and ventilated home like ours it is a constant battle to keep dampness at bay and our house smelling nice.
Sam can be kind of a little stinker too. I wasn’t aware of it before I got him, but Shih Tzus have a problem with their tear ducts. Those ducts can emit the sourest smell. I have to wipe Sam’s eyes constantly. Then, of course there’s his naturally doggy odor. I bought these perfumed wipes to groom him with but they only help a little and I don’t want to bathe him every day.
With Valentine’s Day coming up naturally, I’m thinking about the smell of roses. Problem is, so many hot house roses don’t have much smell. The flower that has a lot of smell is the lily. Unfortunately, the lily is too associated with funerals.
I guess I’ll go sneak one of Kathleen’s cupcakes now. At least they smell like sweet death. Lead me to the oven!
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