Mango trees are blooming. Their small, brownish-yellow flowers hang from the trees in clusters. It's not a colorful but an interesting sight. Its scent however is heavenly. Sometimes we walk miles covered by this powerful scent. I was having headaches of this scent for three days... I knew it was almost identical to some familiar smell, the scent of a tree natural in our homeland. I wondered. Elderflower? Black locust? But I wasn't sure.
Then on the third day I smelled a bushy cluster of flowers again and I remembered... I remembered those winter afternoons when, as a child, I came home from the snowball-fights and I grasped with my bluish fingers a cup of hot linden flower tea. Mango flowers smell like linden flowers.
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