The Smell of Tea

by 1000th Ghost

The Mad Hatter wishes to describe to you what tea smells like.

The Smell of Tea

By: 1000th Ghost

You don't think that tea has a smell. And you would be right. Tea smells like nothing but tea, which smells like nothing, and since nothing smells like tea, how could I tell you what tea smells like? In any case, I've been smelling the nothingness of tea for so long that even if it has a smell, I wouldn't recognize it.

She gave the tea a smell though. Because, you see, I dumped her in a teapot (well, I didn't "dump" her in one, merely placed her. alright then, you're not convinced: "drop". that's not as bad as "dump" but not as simple as "place"), and afterwards, whatever tea I put in there smelled of Alice. So, really, I should be telling you what Alice smells like, not what tea smells like.

And that is precisely the problem! ALICE SMELLS LIKE TEA. And tea smells like nothing. But Alice does not smell like nothing, Alice smells like Alice! Who smells like tea.

Well, the particular Alice Tea that comes out of the Alice Teapot has a more fleshy scent than tea, I suppose, since tea doesn't have flesh (what a disturbing thought if it did though! it would make it much harder to drink, in any case). It smells of whatever she washed her hair with that morning (she may have skipped washing her hair altogether though. I know at least that she skipped wearing a corset). And a hint of her breath is in there too, which is wonderful to be able to taste via tea because, for now, it is the only way I am able to.