What’s Your Spirit Scent?

Have you ever stood next to someone and thought, You must know how you smell… because if you did, you’d fix it?

It’s a funny thought

until you realize it’s not really about perfume or funk or cologne at all.

It’s about energy. Presence. The invisible residue we leave behind when we move through the world.

Everyone carries a scent - not one you spray on in the morning, but one you bring with you everywhere you go. You leave it in rooms, in conversations, in grocery store aisles, at dinner tables, in inboxes, on sidewalks. And people can catch it long after you’re gone.

Some people enter a space and leave behind peace.Others leave chaos swirling in their wake.Some carry kindness like a warm, familiar aroma.Others leave confusion, tension, or unease.

Nobody—nobody—moves through this world spirit-scent-free.

That’s the truth we don’t often pause long enough to tell ourselves.

Especially in seasons of transition, reflection, or becoming—when we’re asking big questions about who we are and how we show up—it’s worth asking a quieter one:

What’s my spirit scent?

When I leave a room, what lingers?

Is it steadiness or urgency? Grace or judgment? Joy or noise? Grounded truth or scattered energy?

This isn’t about perfection. It’s not about being “positive” all the time or spiritually polished. It’s about intention. Awareness. Choosing, again and again, how we want to show up in the world—especially when no one is watching.

Because whether we mean to or not, we’re always leaving something behind.

My hope—for myself, and maybe for you too—is this:

May our spirit scent smell like grace. Like calm in a loud world. Like joy that doesn’t demand attention. Like truth that doesn’t bruise. Like kindness that lingers longer than words.

May it be the aroma of someone being shaped on purpose.

So take a breath. Tell yourself the truth. And ask gently - not with judgment, but with curiosity:

What’s my scent… and is it the one I want to leave behind?