Paris Rain

The smell of rain is different depending where you are. Have you ever smelled rain in the country? It smells of earths and worms and green life. How about at the ocean? There, rain smells of salt and seagulls and sandy stones between your toes. But rain smells best, at least it does to me, in Paris. I lived there as a girl.

What does the rain smell like in Paris, you ask?

It smells of old books.

It glistens like silver sidewalks.

It makes the sky mist-white and smells like wet flowers mixed with fresh starts.

I haven't been since I was a girl, but I'll never forget that smell.

it's my city, and most beautiful in the rain.