The Smell Of Home

[e_juliana]

The smell I most associate with "home" is Market Spice tea. For those who don't know it, it's an orange-cinnamon black tea sold by Market Spice, a shop in Pike's Market in Seattle. It's so citrusy that you can't leave a plastic utensil in with the tea, because the orange oils will melt the plastic. My parents drank Market Spice by the gallon, and there was always a pot on the counter. My mother tapered her drinking of it many years ago, but the house is still permeated with the orange/cinnamon/black tea scent.

I don't like tea that much. I don't like the tannins, and I don't like how my breath smells after drinking it. I love the smell of tea steeping, but it's wasted on me. Instead, I have a lot of scented candles scattered around my apartment. Two of my favorite scents are citrus and spice, unsuprisingly. Nothing says Home more than that. And now, I have the best smell ever in a candle, because I finally got around to ordering the Market Spice travel candles.

Mmmmmm. So tasty. So nummy. I have one at work and one at home, and I keep taking big whiffs of them. So very nice. Home.


What is your "home" scent?

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[pix-kristin.livejournal.com]

Woodsmoke from the fire on cold days.

The earthy scent of horses.

The smell after a rainfall.

Fresh-baked bread.

[sophiap.livejournal.com]

Pine sol (what we always use to clean)

Patchouli (my mom's favorite cologne, even though she is about as far as you can get from the stereotypical patchouli wearer)

Twinings Black Currant tea.