Some say that the smell of fall in the air is indescribable. I kind of agree. For me there’s an element of the wet woods combined with a little bit of wood smoke. Perhaps the smoke is from people burning leaves, but the wet woods smell can be picked up in the spring as well. There’s mouldy leaves and just a general smell of decomposition.
I was taken aback by a meteorologist from the Washington Post who said that the dying leaves give off gases that smell “a bit like chlorine or the exhaust of a dryer vent”
Dryer vent?!?!? Really? That must be some funky fabric softener he’s using. I don’t get that at all. Not the chlorine or the dryer vent.
Maybe we all have a different assortment of scents that tell us it’s fall. I’ve got old apple trees in the backyard that add that apple smell to the wet woods, wood smoke and decomposing leaves.
However, there are some other “notes” to the fall of smell that I haven’t been able to identify yet, but taken as a whole it’s all definitely the smell of autumn. Feel free to add your fall scents!
