{"id":318,"date":"2023-03-01T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comptonplations.com\/?p=318"},"modified":"2023-02-20T19:56:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T19:56:48","slug":"__trashed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comptonplations.com\/?p=318","title":{"rendered":"My Sense of Scents"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was lucky that COVID didn’t mess with my nose. Or tastebuds. But one thing I’ve noticed over the past several years is that there are scents I cannot smell–even pre-COVID.<\/p>\n

Peonies are a great example. I love peonies. After we bought our house one late February (still winter in upstate NY), exploring the grounds after the snow melted was an adventure. I was excited to find two peony bushes. I knew peonies came with ants. As far as I know, it’s a fact of life. I’ve always heard that the ants had to eat the wax seals on the buds in order for the blossoms to bloom. Old wives tale? I don’t know.<\/p>\n

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Freshly picked bouquet of peony flowers on display at the farmers market<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The thing I was surprised to learn was that they are fragrant. I can’t smell them. But I’ve read that they smelly sugary. I see “peony” listed as one of the scents in candles. You could have fooled me. Maybe my spring nose is overwhelmed by lilacs.<\/p>\n

This winter, I have been burning scented candles while I work. Because I’m writing forced proximity romance (snowed in!) I purchased candles with the appropriate names of Drifting Snowflakes<\/em> \u00a0and Sparkling Snowfall<\/em>.\u00a0<\/strong> Lovely concepts. But I can’t smell them. Which disappoints me. I also have a problem with a candle called Plot Twist<\/em>,\u00a0<\/strong>although my nose seems to be getting better at identifying it. Two of my favorite scents are Balsam Woods<\/em> and First Draft.\u00a0<\/em>There are many other concept scented candles by Novelly Yours<\/a> that I can’t wait to try. Some are also “location” candles: National Forest and\u00a0Ski Resort <\/em>are two that intrigue me.<\/p>\n

I probably won’t burn scented candles come summer. The fans (window and ceiling) will annoy the flames.<\/p>\n

If you like to burn scented candles, what are your favorite scents?<\/p>\n

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I was lucky that COVID didn’t mess with my nose. Or tastebuds. But one thing I’ve noticed over the past several years is that there are scents I cannot smell–even pre-COVID. Peonies are a great example. I love peonies. After we bought our house one late February (still winter in upstate NY), exploring the grounds […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_ml_titleColor":"#000000","_ml_titleFont":"Roboto","_ml_titleFontSize":1.1359999999999998987476601541857235133647918701171875,"_ml_titleFontWeight":"400","_ml_titleLineHeight":1.3000000000000000444089209850062616169452667236328125,"_ml_metaColor":"#708090","_ml_metaFont":"Montserrat","_ml_metaFontSize":0.67849999999999999200639422269887290894985198974609375,"_ml_metaFontWeight":"400","_ml_metaLineHeight":0.92000000000000003996802888650563545525074005126953125,"_ml_bodyColor":"#a9a9a9","_ml_bodyFont":"Open Sans","_ml_bodyFontSize":0.84999999999999997779553950749686919152736663818359375,"_ml_bodyFontWeight":"400","_ml_bodyLineHeight":1.1999999999999999555910790149937383830547332763671875,"_ml_wooPriceColor":"#666","_ml_wooPriceFont":"Open Sans","_ml_wooPriceFontSize":0.90000000000000002220446049250313080847263336181640625,"_ml_wooPriceFontWeight":"400","_ml_wooPriceLineHeight":1.270000000000000017763568394002504646778106689453125,"_ml_headingColor":"#000","_ml_headingFont":"Merriweather","_ml_headingFontSize":2.020000000000000017763568394002504646778106689453125,"_ml_headingFontWeight":"700","_ml_headingLineHeight":1.4699999999999999733546474089962430298328399658203125,"_mlglobal_userfontcolors":{"headingColorUser":[],"titleColorUser":[],"metaColorUser":[],"bodyColorUser":[],"wooPriceColorUser":[]},"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-life"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","blog_post_layout_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","full":""},"categories_names":{"11":{"name":"Writing Life","link":"https:\/\/comptonplations.com\/?cat=11"}},"tags_names":[],"comments_number":"0","wpmagazine_modules_lite_featured_media_urls":{"thumbnail":"","cvmm-medium":"","cvmm-medium-plus":"","cvmm-portrait":"","cvmm-medium-square":"","cvmm-large":"","cvmm-small":"","full":""},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comptonplations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comptonplations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comptonplations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comptonplations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comptonplations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/comptonplations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/comptonplations.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comptonplations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comptonplations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comptonplations.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}