Confusingly Smelly

Natural things smell like themselves most of the time. Strawberries always smell like strawberries – whether they are in the strawberry patch, in a tasty short-cake, in jam form, or in a stick of lip balm. There is no confusion with strawberries – they always smell more or less the same. I like things that have a consistent smell – I always know what to expect with these types of things. What I don’t like are cows. Cows smell different when in different forms. Why don’t cows smell like leather when they are out in the pasture? Everyone loves the smell of a new car that has leather seats, but no one wants to snuggle up to a cow when it is eating grass or getting milked. Cow smell is very inconsistent. A hamburger doesn’t smell like leather or like cows in a pasture. It’s very strange when you think about it.