Best and Worst Smells and Scents

Ah, the summer is here. Great smells and scents floating in the air all around us. But with the heat also the worst stanks rise to the surface and tickle your nasal cavities the wrong way.

My favorite scent, as I once again noticed, is the smell of freshly cut grass, it's very endearing. A close second would be the fresh scent of a mixed forest just after a swift summer rainstorm.

The worst smell I can think of is rotten fish. When I was younger we thought it would be fun to stick some coarse fish or fish entrails into a hollow pipe at the edge of the pier and close it with a makeshift lid. After about three months of baking under one of the hottest summer suns in recent memory, we decided to check out how the fish were holding up. I still have nightmares about that stench. A runner-up would be the now-moldy wool socks that had been jammed at the bottom of my backpack for nearly two weeks in the army.


So what are your favorite and not-so-favorite smells? It could be anything - dandelions, your childhood home, your balls or vagoo, anything. Just choose the best and worst with runner-ups if you must!