Everyday aromatherapy: smells that take me away
I grew up splitting my time between the suburbs and the mountains. My parents split when I was little and my mom stayed in the suburbs and my day moved to the mountains. When I’d visit my dad, I always enjoyed the smells of the mountains. To me, the smell of the mountains is the heavy scent of pine, melting snow in the soil, fresh cut wood, fires from chimneys and Colorado moss growing on the rocks. Any one of those smells today trigger a calming effect on my mind as well as my body. Along my current walking route (in a warehouse district of town) on my lunch hour, I pass a small group of pine trees. I breathe in deeply and smile while passing every...