When I stepped outside my friend's house tonight to go home after an evening of merrymaking, I immediately smelled something so characteristic of the desert, it made me exclaim. "What is that desert smell?!" "Creosote." My roommates answered me definitively, without any hesitation. I made them say this name to me several times, and then spell it. I have never heard of it before. We got back out of the car for them to point out the green bush on the side of the road, and to put our noses in its little leaves. Now I know that creosote is that Sonoran desert smell. It is a mild but very distinctive smell, and I like it a lot!
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