Of all the senses I've known, my ability to differ one scent to another is kinda suck. I'm actually an audio-visual person. For me, seeing and hearing is believing, hahahaha..
I love several scents, though. The scent of coffee, baby, freshly baked baking goodies and subtle yet fresh perfumes. It's not easy for me to tell differences between, for example, one flower to another, one perfume to another. So for me, if it smells good, wear it!
But with all my insensitiveness, hundreds of olfactory receptors of mine can easily refer one scent to something, or someone. For example, I still remember how my friend's old house smells like. I also (now) can choose a perfect scent for somebody who is really close to me. Like I did when I picked a body mist for my best friend.
I also recently appreciate Y's sweet yet warm scent. I kept sniffing the scent that is left on his jacket and try to lock the scent in my mind. So, right now, though he's not around, I can still remember how his smell. And when he's around, his smell gives me kind of something.. like.. "oh-this-is-you" kind of feeling. Weird, huh? Hihi.
Being a copy writer in a cosmetic company has pushed me to enhance my sense of smell. I should know whenever I have to write these words: zesty, musky, earthy, warm, dreamy, sweet, etc. I have to broaden my olfaction knowledge and try to appreciate the slightest difference between one scent and another.
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