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the show begins. I don't know if you've ever

had an experience like this before, but it's something that's happened to me so many times

in my life, but you might be walking through, say, a garden centre or some kind of gift shop or a department store or maybe a marketplace.

And suddenly you'll just get stopped in your tracks by the smell of something wonderful wafting

into the air and you'll look around you and inevitably, well, it's going to be one or two things.

It's either soaps for sale, or I find, more often than not,

there is a display of scented candles nearby.

And I don't know about you but personally there is no greater simple joy in life let me try and rephrase that there is no simpler most joyful activity one can indulge in in life than taking a moment to stop at the candle display

and just smell what's on offer.

Have a little explore of the various scents that are available to you.

Because I think, you know, smell, unless you've got, you know, particularly powerful sense of smell, like my partner does,

you know, then it can end up being a little bit of a curse sometimes,

I think, but for me, I think most people, especially for me, because my sense of smell is

actually fairly dull, but I forget about it as a scent, as a scent, as a sense, I forget about smell,

as a sense. And for that reason, you know, I don't often indulge in smells.

If I remember to, which I try to, more often than not, these days,

I'll stop and smell roses when I see them.

That's a top.

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