Aromatics

What are your favorite aromatics?

I'm sure that you have quite a few.

I have some thoughts with which you may agree.

Come! Let me share them with you.

 

What could be better than freshly baked bread?

It makes the mouth water;

A pallet's delight.

Almost as refreshing as gentle spring rain

Coming softly and quiet on a hot dusty night.

 

The sweet lofty smell of vanilla in baking

Arrives on wings sent from heaven above.

The bold brawny scent of a coat made of leather;

Another aroma that I've come to love.

 

To open the door, for the very first time,

Of a brand new car as it sits on the lot.

To breathe in deeply the heavenly scent

Of your favorite coffee fresh from the pot.

 

But of all of the odors abundant on earth

To tease the olfactory nerve,

The lilacs of spring are my personal choice.

A memory cherished, to keep, to preserve.

 

So, keep these and others, your own favorite scents.

Remember and treasure them well.

One of god's greatest gifts to the human condition

Is our marvelous, glorious sense of smell.