Help for fic: Trouble with descriptions...

[slumber]

Uh... how do men smell/taste like? Anything that would concretize the picture? I'm having a bit of trouble not romanticizing the descriptions... I'm stuck with mint and honey and cinnamon and musk. Gah!! Help!!! Must finish this by Valentine's!!!

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[isilya]

I love your list, and it ties in with something I was reading about how our forebears are most emotionally connected to natural smells; baking, cut grass, manure, while we as a generation react most to chemical scents; chlorine, cologne, toothpaste, petrol.

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[stakebait.livejournal.com]

*nods* I think it's partly associational. I've smelled manure maybe twice in my life, I've got nothing much to connect it to. Petrol brings back vivid sense memories of childhood, being crammed into the way back of a station wagon full of kids. That said, I still react to cut grass and baking.

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[isilya]

Chlorine is one of my strongest punch-in-the-face smells. There's nothing like a whiff of chlorine to take me back ten years in a second.

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[stakebait.livejournal.com]

Heh. Were you a swim team kid too, by any chance? Chlorine itself doesn't do much for me, but drying clorine on sun-warmed skin... yeah.