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kemi.cocoain Giving Fragrance · London ·

Memory

End-of-term presents that smelled of cinnamon

Steaming mulled wine in a wide pan, orange slices, cinnamon and star anise on top

Every December my class gives me little homemade things. The one I kept for years was a jam jar of cinnamon sticks tied with red wool, wrapped by a seven-year-old in half a roll of tape. The whole staffroom smelled of it until spring. It's the only present I can still smell just by thinking about it.

Cinnamon

2 comments

mags.lavender

That's lovely. Children put a lot of thought into a smell without ever saying so.

mo_from_leicester

We had a teacher who kept a cardamom pod in her desk drawer. I can still smell that drawer.