Hi Ladies!
This is my participation in The 46th Edition of the Ladies of Hive Community Contest answering the question What are your three favorite smells?
My favorite smells are food related, hahaha!
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The first one I want to mention is coffee, I am a coffeelover, I can't conceive a day without drinking coffee, and it all started a little before I entered the university. I live in Valencia (Venezuela) and I was a few weeks accompanying an aunt in Puerto La Cruz (in the east of the country), she had the habit of filling a small thermos with freshly brewed coffee and left it on a counter in the kitchen on a tray with small cups, everyone who passed by there was tempted to drink coffee, I have to say that I also fell into this temptation...
However, I have to say that I love the smell of coffee since long before my addiction started, for me the smell of coffee is the smell of home. When I was in college it was the glory to wake up early in the morning and be greeted by my mom in the kitchen with a delicious cup of freshly brewed coffee... the effort of getting up so early was compensated with that delicious cup of coffee sweetened with love by the hands of my beautiful and dedicated mother...
My second favorite smell is that of a cake while it is baking, it is a smell that scents the whole house, all the neighbors realize they are next to a Home Sweet Home... Smelling a cake is the smell of sharing and enjoying with your loved ones... I always get an excuse to bake a little cake: my children's birthday, my pet's birthday, graduation anniversary... any excuse is valid...
My third favorite smell is chocolate... Chocolate not only tastes delicious, its smell is also delicious... for me eating chocolate is to celebrate love, it is to share, it is also to console oneself from a disappointment, to pass the bitter pill of sadness...
My favorite smells are the perfect combination of a snack with my loved ones during a rainy afternoon... Each bite of a chocolate covered cake accompanied by a rich cup of coffee evokes the wonderful years of sharing with my family, and each new bite is a new memory, a new family experience, a new sharing that accompanies my other memories...
There is one more smell I want to describe....
My dear maternal grandmother loved to perfume herself, her favorite fragrance was Anaís Anaís by Cacharel, there was no other perfume that pleased her more... Maíta, as we called her affectionately, died last November, and the smell of this perfume has taken a deeper meaning in me, to smell it is in a certain way to feel her presence, the fragrance of this perfume crosses my sense of smell and reaches my soul, it awakens my desire to embrace my maita again...
Maita and me
Thank you for reading this far...