That smell after it rains
Burning trash, as its smoke spreads onto the main street
Fresh terang bulan on the street corner, like vanilla cake being baked in your oven
Body odor on 105 degree days, sometimes my own
Pizza Hut pizza
Essential oils, like cajeput oil, in the teacher's room, for someone not feeling well
Shallots and garlic being cooked in oil, especially in my kitchen come 5pm
Hotel soap in a hot shower
Cigarette ash
Dirty cows and their poop
My PVC yoga mat
An air freshener clipped on my fan: peony and berry bliss
Melted batik wax, mostly made from paraffin, when making handmade batik
Freshly grilled fish at the beach
The smell that gets on your clothes after you eat at McDonald's
Sweaty kids when playing frisbee next door
Dirty chickens and their poop
Burning trash
Burning coals and grilled sate on the portable stove of a food stand
Cooked chili peppers, burning your nose from the spice
Doused body fragrance when you walk past someone at school
Incense burnt in offering to Hindu gods
Coffee brewing, or boiling water being added to instant coffee
Motorbike exhaust at school dismissal
Essential oil I bought to help me fall asleep
Burning trash
A ice-cold Bintang
Freshly printed textbooks in the library, stacked on bookcases that smell like varnished wood
Dirty goats and their poop
Smelly feet when someone takes their shoes off
Fried chicken, fried bananas, fried bread, fried mushrooms, fried potatoes, fried broccoli
Salty air at the beach
Burning trash
