Eau de Baby

Recently Michael handed Jane to me after a diaper change. I noticed that she smelled really, really nice...like baby powder, only we don't use baby powder on her. Obviously something else was at work here. I was on the brink of an amazing discovery. My thoughts ran rampant in giddy exultation. Why did I never notice that she smelled like this before?...My baby has her own distinctive, signature scent and I don't even discover it until she's two weeks old...Or maybe it's not distinctive - maybe it's generic Baby Scent, and all babies smell like this, and that's why they patterned the classic baby powder scent after this...Wow, I raised five younger brothers and I never noticed that they exuded classic Baby Scent!...Or maybe this is classic Baby Girl Scent, and the boys didn't exude it, which would account for my not having noticed it then....Finally I pointed it out to Michael. 'Did you notice that Jane has begun to develop her own signature scent?' I asked. 'She sure smells nice, doesn't she?' He gave me a funny look. 'That's the baby wipes smell, love.' Oh. Well, anyway, it was an interesting theory.