The Subtle Art of Naming the Smells That Shape You
On a nose-first investigation into the world.
3 min readSep 10, 2019
Petrichor
Summer smells like fresh rain on hot asphalt. It smells like staying out twenty minutes past curfew, of storms moving in, of running home under newspapers, giggling and laughing and telling the boy next to me to run faster, we’re getting wet!