GOOD COMMON SCENTS
"Does my pussy stink?"
"What?" I replied.
"Does my pussy stink?" My best friend Jen was asking a very personal question.
"No, of course not. Why would you ask such a question?"
"I was watching one of those commercials for 'full-body deodorants' and wondered if I have problem."
I said, "No you don't."
She persisted, "You'd tell me, wouldn't you, even if it hurt my feelings."
I touched her hand and said, "You don't have a problem. Your pussy doesn't stink."
She was quiet for a moment. "How do you know?"
I tried to reassure her, "You are fresh and clean. You bathe every day. I smell a hint of your fragrance and your shampoo. Why are you worried? Did somebody say something to you?"
"No, but they wouldn't. People don't say such things, they just avoid you."
"Is someone avoiding you?"
She hesitated, then said, "Well, I wonder about Ray." Ray is her husband.
"Ray is avoiding you?" I couldn't believe it.
She was too embarrassed to respond.
"What is bothering you, Jen?"
She hesitated, then said, "I just wonder why Ray doesn't go down on me anymore."
"What are you talking about?"
"Ray doesn't go 'down there' anymore. He used to do it all the time."
She was telling me her husband had stopped eating her pussy. She thought it was because her pussy smelled bad.
Jen and I have been very close friends since high school and we have confided in each other, but this was a new level of intimacy. We are both teachers and were on our summer break. We'd have lunch at one of our homes about once a week. We were in Jen's living room, eating dessert and watching TV.
I said, "Have you asked him about it?"
"No. I'm embarrassed to ask him such a thing. He wouldn't tell me anyway for fear of hurting my feelings."
"Jen, I've never smelled anything about you that was in any way offensive. You don't even fart."
She said, "Yes, but ..." She paused. "You are up here, not 'down there."
I laughed and asked, "Do you want me to smell your crotch to see if there are any offensive odors."
She said, "You wouldn't know what to sniff for."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, you're not used to smelling women's private areas, are you?"
I laughed at the inference. "I certainly could tell if there was anything offensive."
She said, "You don't know what men like or don't like."
I had to admit, "Well, I guess you're right. I'm amazed that James (my husband) likes the smell and taste of my pussy. It's difficult to understand why men like some of the things they do. I mean, wanting someone to sit on your face sounds pretty gross, but guys like it." I laughed at the very unusual direction of our conversation.
"See." Jen said, "You wouldn't know what smells good and what doesn't."
"This is ridiculous." I moved over and sat beside her on the couch and bent my head to about her chest and sniffed. "I don't smell anything but your perfume."
We were both laughing. She said, "If you can't smell my pussy, how do you know it doesn't smell bad."
I leaned closer, putting my head at her waist and couldn't smell anything different.
She said, "I'm just so worried that Ray doesn't find me attractive anymore."
"That's ridiculous. I see the way he looks at you." I was trying to make her feel good. I hadn't really paid attention to how much Ray was focused on his wife.
She asked, "Does James still, you know, do it to you?"
I knew what she was asking and gave her an honest answer. "Well yes. He does,"
"Do you force him?"
"Oh no. He goes down there quite willingly. It's one of his favorite things."
She said, "Your pussy must smell nice." She laughed.
"He seems to like it." I added. "I smell myself on his face when he moves up and finishes. It's disgusting, but he likes it and that's all that counts."
"See." She said. "Maybe he's offended."
I was incredulous. "I've never heard of a man who was offended by the smell of pussy."
Jen said, "As far as I know, the only pussy Ray has ever smelled is mine."
"Well, James claims to be an expert. He's gone down on quite a few women."
Jen barely knew James. We didn't socialize with our husbands. James is a fast-food franchise owner while Ray is an investment advisor. They don't have anything in common and we have never socialized. I had met Ray, but that's all.
She giggled and asked me, "How many women has James been with? Ray has only been with me."
I told her, "Well before he married his first wife, we slept with a number of chippies and after he dumped that bitch, he screwed a number of sluts before he met me."
She laughed and said, "And you weren't a slut?"
"Well, I held out for a couple of weeks before he got me in bed." Jen already knew about my love life and how I had fallen for James. Since he was 'experienced' I felt pressured to let him screw me and he did pretty quickly.
Jen said, "I'll bet he's an expert on how pussies smell."
I asked her, in jest, "Would you like him to give you an opinion on how your pussy smells?"
She laughed and said, "It would be like wine tasting. He could describe the subtleties of my scent and taste."