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// Smell (7/25/2017) 
// Story: A Pony a Day 
// by OfTheIronwilled 
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Ever since they were little, Twilight had smelled like ink and old paper. She had shampoo and soap and stuff, but it changed throughout the years, so it was the sent of her books and letters that stood out most. She lived in a couple of different libraries throughout her life, so that wasn't much of a surprise. It was comforting though, in the same way that opening a book and smelling that page-paper was.

Applejack was kind of a mixed bag. She was a farmpony, right, and so she worked a lot. So a lot of the times she smelled like sweat, but at least then it wasn't bad, and nobody minded it much. Especially since it was usually covered up with the sweet, tart smell of apples and desserts. It just depended on the day really.

Of course, Pinkie Pie just smelled like pure sugar. Cakes, cupcakes, candy, entire bags of actual pure sugar, the mysterious stuff she always kept stashed in her mane right by her ear-- it all melted together into this over-bearing sweetness, like that pony was a candy factory personified. Sometimes it was nice, but other times it was almost too much. You got used to it though.

Fluttershy... okay, no offense, but Fluttershy stank. A lot. Which was surprising since she was always so well-groomed. It wasn't, like, rank or anything, but she was constantly surrounded by animals. Not that she was dirty -- she bathed more than regularly, and you could definitely get a whiff of soap hidden in there somewhere -- but there was always this heavy, gamey smell that followed her around. It was gross, but not too bad if you pretended you were hugging an old dog or something.

It was kind of impossible to describe Rainbow Dash's scent. As in, it was so many piled on top of each other it was hard for your nose to keep up. She showered using this one really strong soap, and then on top of that you could tell she used like three kinds of hair gel and some kind of body spray. Plus then she went flying and working out so there was sweat in there, on top of the rain and ozone and burny-smell of lightning... it was a mess. Not a bad mess, just... It kinda made your nose confused, is all.

And Rarity. Sweet, beautiful, flawless Rarity. She smelled like heaven, and flowers, and perfume, and everything pretty in Equestria, and all the best gemstones, and--

N-Not that Spike would know! Not like he would know-- a-any of that. Because to know any of that he would have to really pay attention when one of them was hugging him or patting him on the scales, and he didn't do that! That was sappy girl stuff! A-And it's not like he got so used to their smells that his superior nose could sense them before his eyes did, or anything, because that would be weird... wouldn't it? Gosh, you know, now that he thought about it, this sounded kinda creepy, didn't it?

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... Nah. It was kind of a dragon thing, he thought. And he guessed that if he told Twilight or anypony, they'd just think it was cute. Bleh.

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Now what was he saying about Rarity again? Oh yeah, she smelled like freshly-picked strawberries and...