First off, thank you so much for your patience with the Wizard of Writing blog over the last few months. I was accepted into a teaching assistant position at my university, and that has taken up much of my time. I hope to balance out my schedule soon, but in the meantime, here is the final installment of the popular Fragrant Cauldron series. As with the prior blog posts, I hope these scents find their way into your writing and make the narrative pop and sizzle. This final installment of the series will focus on scents from S-Z. Have fun with these!
S
Strawberry
Soda Pop
Sugar Cookies
Sunflowers
Sunshine
Sauce
Salsa
Sardines
Salmon
Shampoo
Soap
Sage
Suntan Lotion
Seabreeze (salty air)
Sulphur
Sweat
Spring (air, flowers, rain)
Snow
Sugar
Spice
Smoke
Seaweed
Smoothie (fruit)
Sand
Sawdust
Sandalwood
S’mores
Spearmint
Sugar Plums
Sweet Pea
Sewer
Skunk
T
Tangerine
Tacos
Tulips
Tin
Tuna
Trees, Timber
Tea
Toffee
Taffy
Toilets
Tobacco
Tropical (fruit)
Teak
U
Urine
Underwear
V
Vanilla
Vanilla Extract
Vick’s Vaporub
Violets
Vomit
Verbena
W
Watermelon
Wine
Woods
Walnuts
Windex
Wreath
Wassail (drink)
Wintergreen
Winter
Winterberry
Y
Ylang-ylang
Z
Zinnias
Zoo
Zombies (hey, I'm sure they smell like something)
Let me know if you think of any other scents, and also let me know how you use these in your writing! Do you have a love interest who smells of a particular shampoo or flower? What wintertime scents are included in your holiday story? Did you use tropical scents to set the scene on an island vacation? I'd love to know!
