Posted by Shortelise on December 5, 2005, at 2:06:42
In reply to Does your T smell?, posted by happyflower on December 3, 2005, at 21:09:27
This is an interesting question, and one I've given a lot of thought to.
Let me preface this by admitting I have a very delicate sense of smell. I smell things that only other good smellers can smell. And I depend on my sense of smell more than most, I think. I cook by it, won't stay in a restaurant that doesn't smell good, (and it has happened that I've been with other people who simply can not smell that there is a bad smell, but I can) and I am very aware of how people smell.
I can be standing in line at the grocery store and a man will stand behind me, and I will be overcome with the smell of him - not a perfume, but the smell of the man himself. It can makes me weak in the knees. It's so strange to see the men who affect me this way. Not always men I would choose, but my genes obviously think they're pretty sexy.
At first, I often found that my T smelled bad. I never told him and never will, but he smelled bad. Sometimes he smelled like whatever he'd been eating, and he still eats raw garlic when he is trying to fight a cold or flu. Other times he just smelled bad, not like body odour, or a bad cologne, but he just simply smelled bad to me.
Then I went through a phase where I couldn't smell him at all. It was as if my nose turned off. Not to something so strong as garlic, but to any more intimate smell. The bad smell was gone, replaced by nothingness.
Now, he smells like a person; clean and nice. But I have wanted to get close enough to inhale him, close enough to smell who he is.
And I can smell the person who's been there before me, usually the same person, but on occasion, someone else. I astonished him one day by saying that there'd been a different than usual person before me. And then for a very long time the person before me has been a guy who smokes, and I always open a window. I love the smell of second hand smoke but abhorr the smell of a smoker.
The saga of ShortE's nose.
ShortE
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