What is the best smell ever?

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crustBrother

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Low tide has a nice aroma.
yes. yes it does.

so you know when you come up after duck diving a wave and the wind is blowing spray off the top of the wave and it is raining down on you?

in the tropics that wind-spray has a subtly different smell than where i'm from in CA

how to describe it?

tangy? i dunno. not sure how to describe it.

but however you describe it THAT is a great fucking smell.
 
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casa_mugrienta

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I've always enjoyed how the ocean tends to smell different in different locations.

You get used to how the ocean smells in one place. Go to another place, different smell. Etc. Cycle repeats.
 
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Freshly cut cedar wood.
My kids baby skin
eucalyptus outside my Aunts La Jolla home
my dad’s cigar smoke but not anyone’s else
jerk chicken on the grill
 

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yes. yes it does.

so you know when you come up after duck diving a wave and the wind is blowing spray off the top of the wave and it is raining down on you?

in the tropics that wind-spray has a subtly different smell than where i'm from in CA

how to describe it?

tangy? i dunno. not sure how to describe it.

but however you describe it THAT is a great fucking smell.
the reef as you paddle out at velzyland. if that could be bottled....
 
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