ZOMG Smells Limited Edition Perfume Oil (Limited)
You've spent dozens of sun-turns in your smartening-pod, immersing yourself in human cultures and human language so you'd blend in perfectly on your Earth mission. No one has ever noticed anything wrong; even the glitches in your pod's language software, the ones that make your mouth just stop working occasionally and type "about" as "abotu" LIKE ALL THE TIME — it turns out humans do those things too!
Sometimes you get a little homesick, though...home is billions of light years away, and your mission is a long one. You miss the mist rising from the spice-swamps at dawn, and the sound of the tiny golden bellumps preeping for mates in the mookfronds...someday you'll be able to go back.
Until then, the scent of home will have to remind you that it's all worth it. Weathered woods and warm spice wet with pulpy green squish, royal jelly, and alien herbs.
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