smell of rain

The smell of rain is not one smell — three layers, arriving in turn

2026-09-022026-09-02

Raindrops falling on a shallow muddy puddle over reddish-brown soil, leaving overlapping concentric ripples

Distilled water has no smell. And yet we smell rain. What we call “the smell of rain” is not one substance but three separate signals… Read More »The smell of rain is not one smell — three layers, arriving in turn