Three Things You Must Smell Before You Die

I love aroma. Don’t we all? One of the greatest pleasures in life comes with the joyful abandon of surrendering one’s self entirely to the redolence of a fragrance from an idyllic past. There’s a reason women like men’s t-shirts. Worn. (Though not too often!)

• The smell of freshly cut wood, lots of it. In a timberyard, or failing that, the ground floor of Ikea.
• The smell of brand new underlay or carpet. What is it that they put in there? It evokes memories of changing homes as a kid.
• The smell of a city street after it has rained for the first time in a fortnight or more.