Week 14 - A list of my favourite things...

Some of my most favourite"st" things are associated to smells. My husband accuses me of having an extra sharp olafactory sense, I could be a police dog replacement, or so he says :-D

-The waft from earth after the first showers. So warm, so invigorating, so full of hope.

-The smell of temples.The divine aroma of freshly made sandlewood paste, incense, camphor, gingelly oil, parijatha & jasmine flowers, and sacred ash (bhasma) take me back to my thatha's (grandfather) house at Salem; if I close my eyes and concentrate I can revoke this fragrance that used to fill the home after his early morning pooja session.

-The mild perfume of Pond's cold cream.As a child, the smell of Ponds Cold cream heralded my mom's arrival.To me then, the round, white plastic bottle held the secret to beauty :-)

-The clean, beautiful special fragrance of babies. Just can't get enough of this one. I love holding my little one close and take in a great whiff of this before she grows too big and it all vanishes.This is not to be confused with the trademark Johnson's baby product smells, the yuck smell of babies whose mothers lag in the hygiene department, or the smell of tots smothered in oil and talcum powder. The baby smell is unique to all babies, kept clean and subsist on milk.The smell continues, well into toddlerhood unless the baby belongs to mommies who've already set up beautification regimens of colognes, and perfumes, and fragrance lotions.

- The smell of books. I love rustling the pages of a new book and breathing deep. Bliss! The mustier, older books are ok too. Lesser bliss ;-)

-Freshly ground coffee smells sexy to me though I'm a hardcore tea lover.

- Women's perfumes with undertones of musk :-)

I think my list of favourites are never ending, so let me stop for now :-)