A Smell I Can't Find Elsewhere - Creative Non-Fiction

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It's been years already and I still can't forget the wonderful smell that place had, I still can't find a similar smell to it but I'll keep searching with my smell senses.

The smell of the place played a role in my daily activities back when I was little living in that area as I didn't plan a day without taking a few minutes to be appreciative of the place and the wonderful smell of gives.

I never knew what fresh air really meant back then as I would always say in my mind that I'm off to go receive fresh air at my favourite place. It wasn't the air but it helped send the nice smells to where I would always stand to receive it. I visited the place for over a month before I learnt the reason it was like that in that area.

There was a fenced house close to the path I walked past when I want to perceive the smell, the house was high fenced and the gates were never opened in my present so I never knew or even could imagine what it was like inside.

I had only suspected the nice smell came from the high fenced house. I kept visiting that place even when I didn't had to go that path sometimes, it was my favourite path to the market place whenever my neighbours sent me on errands.

It happened that one day, while I was smiling non stop to the nice smelling going in and out of my breath, the gates of the house was opened as a car was parked outside waiting to go inside. I couldn't stand still, I ran close to the gate as it unveiled what had been hidden. My curiosity was crushed so beautifully, I saw a house of flowers that day.

I saw an old woman sitting at the balcony of the house, I waved to her from where I was standing at the gates. There was no shying away that day, I was too enchanted by the flower house to have just turned back like it never happened. The woman allowed me to go in to meet her, I was so into the cloud with my feelings.

The more I walked closer to the woman, the more stronger the smell was and I could hear my head wishing never to go out of the place ever. It was one of the examples I gave of an heaven on earth, one couldn't be in a bad mood at such a place.

I greeted the woman with so much respect and complimented her flower house almost immediately after greeting. She smiled and welcomed me so warmly than I had expected but I knew the wonderful smell was helping the whole situation... A total stranger in a beautiful house as that.

The woman let me take short walks around the places the flowers were planted and I could remember the countless flowers I touched while smiling and trying to figure out which smelled more wonderfully.

Now, I can't find such a wonderful smelling place ever since we moved from that area but the smell lives on in my memory.