I've caught myself smelling my own clothes and wondered what exactly I was checking.
It usually happens without thinking. You pick up a jumper, a shirt or a coat and bring it towards your nose. Perhaps you're deciding whether it needs washing. Perhaps you're checking whether the perfume you wore earlier is still there. Or perhaps you've no real reason at all. You simply smell it. It's one of those tiny things we do that makes perfect sense while we're doing it, but becomes rather strange if we stop to think about it. We don't normally stand around smelling our clothes for pleasure. Yet the moment something familiar reaches our nose, we seem to want to know what it smells like.
