I have been doing a lot of driving the past few days and have encountered a wide variety of smells or have been reminded of them.
Dulles Airport was surrounded by the smell of automobile exhaust.
Front Royal, Virginia still stinks as much as it has for as long as I can remember.
Waynesboro, VA smells much better than it used to back when the whole place would stink like vinegar when they would change the dye vats at the textile plant.
The Bridgewater and Harrisonburg area farms are currently getting their periodic coating of aged chicken manure which is so acrid as to nearly sting the eyes.
The manure spreaders (cow manure this time) are doing their work near Baker, West Virginia as well. It is just considered as one of the smells of spring around there.
But on the more positive side, I smelled the sweet perfume of some enormous lilac bushes as I passed through Moorefield, WV.
I caught the scent of the emergent spring foliage as I walked through the woods near Oldfields, WV.
And Alice has reminded me of the time years ago when I climbed to the top of a short mountain which overlooked a lake not far from Great Falls, Montana where I was surrounded by the wonderful smell of pollen-covered pines as I stopped to rest awhile.(Lucky me - the pollen does'nt bother me in the least!)
But all of these scents fade from memory when I hold close the woman I love and smell the sweetness of her. Not any kind of perfume. Just a scent which is hers and hers alone.