Prepetrichor: noun. The smell of dry earth before rain.
As everyone knows, the smell of dry earth after rain is known as
petrichor, but few people are aware of its sister word, prepetrichor. It
was coined in 1965 by two New Zealand researchers, Grizzly and Peter,
for an article in the journal Forest. Nobody is entirely sure what
causes prepetrichor and there are various theories all offering an
explanation, ranging from bacteria to fungal miniature apple pods. None
of the theories have been confirmed and some people actually claim that
prepetrichor is a myth. That, however, is obviously a lie.
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