...I'm starting to notice things again, like (as random as this sounds) the smell of a clean fursuit, or fresh laundry, good (and bad) food... I've just been noticing scents a LOT more the last week or so. Wonder why... realized it when I was moving the fursuit to do a bit of tidying up... and whoosh, suddenly I realized it was the fursuit I'd been smelling in the room the whole time. Just a pleasantly 'clean' but not over-laundered scent, started prowling around my slowly-emptying apartment... picking up scents here and there.

It's been... close to a decade since an ex-friend of mine broke my nose, and the surgery to re-attach it the doctor insisted on 'fixing my sinuses' while he was in there. I used to be able to tell when people entered the room, and figure out who it was by scent the majority of the time. If my sense of smell really is finally healing up fully and coming back... it's really hard to put into words just how much I've missed it.

Fursuits do have a distinctly different aroma from any other form of clothing or costuming though, I think in large part due to the common materials used that prevent 'modern' cleaning techniques from being used, so dozens of specialized micro-techniques are needed instead for the majority of fursuits. So they end up with an aroma that definately trips 'clean' in the mind, but it's at the same time distinctly NOT the right 'flavor' of clean, which trips other circuits in the brain. Or at least in my brain.