#weird smells

[ksodirty]

[wanderingmind867]

My dad and I were planning to have a roast beef for dinner, but it keeps smelling weird. It smells like bad dairy or something. It makes me feel sick and uncomfortable, basically. I'm too exhausted to write about this competently. But I don't like dairy regularly, at least most of the time.

Still, I'm going to let the roast stay in the slow cooker. But if the food still smells and/or tastes badly later, I probably won't eat it. So we'll just see how things go after school

[postmodernbobs]

[prairiefirewitch]

A word about why my magick sometimes smells weird.

I formulate everything I make with ritual in mind; “purposeful not perfumed.” I use raw materials that are just what they are; natural plant material, not fragrances designed to freshen a room. Some herbs do smell lovely, but others are funky. That funky aroma is sometimes what decides their magickal use. Many herbs associated with the Devil, the Underworld, cthonic deities and spirits, etc. are pungent or sharp in the same way the herbs associated with love can be sweet smelling. There’s a reason we associate asafoetida with the Devil and rose petals with Aphrodite. Mars, the ruler of war (among other things) is associated with herbs that are fiery, like chilies, mustard oil, ginger, and cinnamon; herbs that fend off attack. War water sometimes has foul-smelling swamp water in it because in war, we aren’t trying to win anyone over, are we?

These associations exist because sense of smell is the most ancient sense, and can induce fear, lust, comfort, panic, among a myriad of involuntary responses, and can draw us in or repel us away. Smell is primal, mysterious, and powerful.

My intention for anything I make has always been to help witches make magick; to bring us deeper into our practices, where we can have revelatory experiences. Witchcraft, in my experience, never smells like Bath & Body Works. I’m alright with this.

An aside: I happen to be a super-smeller. Yeah, that’s a real thing! I’m literally and figuratively led by my nose. I happen to enjoy stronger, musky, earthy scents, so naturally they show up in my workings a lot. They smell like magick to me. The smell of forest soil with lots of leaf decay is one of my favorite scents, and I love the smell of freshly dug up roots. Asafoetida is my least favorite smell and the small jar I keep on hand has to be locked inside two jars and kept hidden in a cupboard in the laundry room so I can’t smell it. Curiously, my favorite wines smell like wet goat.

Tell me about your favorite and least favorite magickal smells! 🐐🖤🐐

((Gratuitous shot of Hedge Rider, which is decidedly funky-smelly.))

[hobbitfalls135]

What are some smells you like but others think is weird?

For me it’s the smell of:

-Play-Doh

-Fire

-Burnt marshmallows

-Old books

-Crayons

And prob others I just can’t remember

[newgirlmoments27]

I'd give you a hug, but my shirt smells pretty weird today.

-Nick miller 

[6-word-autism]

Story #283

Hospitals smell interesting. Not good interesting...

[weezyvonfresca]