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OP Ah now there's a word to describe something I've always loved and never had a word for! I wonder if there is a word for the smell in the air that precedes rain. Around here in the summer sometimes it smells just like the nearby Elkhorn Creek just before a rain.
Getting back to petrichor, the smell that comes with rain is probably very different in the city than it is in the countryside. And yet I like the urban smell of fresh rain on hot, dusty, oily streets. What do they call that -- petrolichor I imagine.
Entire Thread Subject Posted By Posted petrichor Alex Williams 04/02/04 11:05 AM Re: petrichor wwh 04/02/04 02:01 PM Re: petrichor belMarduk 04/02/04 08:39 PM Re: petrichor Jackie 04/02/04 10:39 PM
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