The Fragrant Cauldron: Using Unique Scents in Writing—Part IV

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!