people having specific scents baffles me in general and then you have werewolves being like, YOU SMELL LIKE DESPERATION AND COME AND THE MOUNTAIN DEW YOU DRANK TWO DAYS AGO, and i am like, i think i’m officially missing the WEIRDEST sense
oh my god i know like, REAL-LIFE SCENT STUFF BAFFLES THE HELL OUT ME, like what do you mean i need perfume that accents my ~personality~, like what do you mean i can have a scent that goes along with me but also smell like cigarettes, like what do you mean garlic smell comes out of my pore AM I LEAKING GARLIC SMELL OH MY GOD WHAT
so this werewolf business is amazeballs, because i can just be like, “and then smell did the following miraculous thing” and not have to check with my beta readers obsessively as i’m writing if SMELL EVEN WORKS THE WAY I THINK IT DOES IN REALITY
(also there are some days when i worry that my life is the truman show and the smell thing is a running gag everyone is playing on me because i just CAN’T IMAGINE BEING ABLE TO KNOW THINGS FROM THE AIR??? WITH MY NOSE??? LIKE???? i don’t know it’s very strange i think of it like a superpower)
