The smell of rain

  • zShxck
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    1 year ago

    actually in Italian there is a word to describe the smell of when it starts to rain and it is: Petricore

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        1 year ago

        I don’t know that word in english because it’s not my first language

        • shapesandstuff@feddit.de
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          1 year ago

          The title of the post, Petrichor, is the chemical responsible for the smell. So i assume “petrichore” in Italian is “petrichor-like” or “peteichory” translated literally to english. I’m just guessing though