The smell of T

The smell of moist earth might be the most universally liked smell that there is.

Across cultures, ages, any barriers that we may share.

Maybe there is something natural, something primitive about our like for that.

If you are a heavy tea drinker like me another smell you really like is the smell of fresh hot tea.

But then, yet another smell which is always present in your life but is one you dread is the smell of stale tea.

The smell of the tea left say, an hour or more after you drink it.

Of course, solutions exists in the form of moving the cup to the sink as soon as you are done, using disposable cups and tossing them quickly to the bin, using covered flasks rather than cups...

But all of them sort of take away from the pleasure of drinking the tea. At least they do for me.

I wish someone would make a type of tea which would turn off its odor once it is stale.