Horns and Teeth

I have a few. I'm sure a few will agree with me on petrichor, the smell of spring. Everything I correlate to petrichor gives me a certain euphoria--thin rain, the very start of spring, my moss stump, the mourning doves that nested outside of my room, my early years of awakening, a simpler time. And so many more memories I couldn't try fit into words.

Another is water. Water? Water!

The lake water of my grandmas house, giggling when encouraged to really swim instead of doggypaddling; replying "it's on instinct!" Without knowing what I meant yet; the chlorine pool at the barbecue, the drying water on my dog's fur that everyone insisted stinked--while I found a comfort in. The particularly yucky tap water of a vacation home.

I hate the smell of garlic and it always ends up with some deer shift; at one point I started doing it intentionally.

A really specific one of my mothers natural perfumes, and on that same note, any herbal scent. Self explanatory.

Aloe and at a lesser extent watermelon !

Another for me is any kind of conifer leaves, and the fresh sweet smell of mountain air. These go together to me. It reminds me of days spent hiking in the mountains of Colorado. Getting stranded in a remote cabin in the snow. It's the smell of the habitat most suited to me as a werewolf. Many of my dream shifts have involved surging through a thick pine forest after prey, with that conifer smell thick in my nose.

Fur and animal musk. I remember the first time I buried my face in a wolf's fur, and being hit by the strongest sensation of affecting and longing and excitement. Smell is important to canines, and this was the moment that I recognized what my own scent would be like and how at home it made me feel. Many wild canines fur does similar for me, but not as strongly as wolf. Likewise the smell of my prey animals also makes me shifty.

you are why anthropology is so hard to decolonize.

if you want to SEE that humanity is not inherently evil and retroactively shift the focus of humanity away from the greed that exists in Eurocentralized doctrine, you NEED TO LEARN.