Five Scents of Spring

Instead of taking the car this afternoon I walked to where I had to go. (Trying to do more of this walking lark as I realise that, despite now living in the country, where I thought I would walk much more than in London, the reverse is true and I am much too sedentary.)

The English Spring sun was very bright and strong and made the whole landscape give up a beautiful bouquet of Spring scents. Here are five of them:

1 The green, sappy smell of young nettles - strong, deep, aromatic and astringently assertive;

2 The honeyed smell of white blackthorn blossom - intensely, warmly sweet, envelopingly heady and bee-glad;

3 The elusive smell of white violets in a bank - fragile and fleeting, fragrantly reminiscent of a bygone age;

4 The imperceptible scent of deep pink cherry blossom - faint, almost indiscernible as if, with such beautiful, frothy, ballet-skirt flowers, scent is not needed to attract pollinating insects;

5 The pale, sunshine smell of celandines - another green scent but lighter more polleny than the strong, verdant note of the nettles;

Go out and choose five yourself in your part of the world? 

Post them and let me know your favourites!