Today Tess and I went up to see Luke Carter Smith, my new nephew. Mom is doing fine (thankfully), as is baby. Tess and I got a bunch of really good whiffs of baby head smell (she got many more since she held Luke for most of the time we were there). Nothing smells better than one-day-old baby head. It's rainy day in the desert smell raised to the power of puppy breath multiplied by morning coffee and added to freshly cut wood. Yep, nothing better.
Congrats again Unca Bill!
Figure out a way to bottle that smell and you will be a rich man.
S.
Posted by suzi at January 13, 2003 8:13 PMwhere does the baby smell come from and why does it smell so good and when does it leave
Posted by jasmine at June 30, 2003 10:45 AMI'm not sure about this, but I think the baby smell is a combination of very warm new skin, various baby lotions/shampoos, and probably a faint whiff of milk. It lasts a few months or so, it seems - probably fades right around the time they start eating solid foods at 6 months or so - they start getting a slightly more sour toddler miasma about them at that point despite best efforts to keep them scrubbed and swabbed - from the food microbits that smear and collect on their skin and hair to dirt from all the crawling around, not to mention the bigger loads in their pants... (Damn thing they're still so cute even when they're smelly). New babies, though, don't collect a lot of goo and are easy to keep clean and yummy-smelling.
As to why the smell is so good - well, damn, just because that's how they smell, and it's a human biological imperative to like babies, I guess! =)
Posted by Tess at June 30, 2003 11:32 AMI think they have a special gland. The baby smell juice seeps through the fontanelle.
Posted by wee at June 30, 2003 12:19 PMYeah, or that. ;-)
Posted by Tess at June 30, 2003 12:55 PM