Tom has found a great new word. He wants to apply it to wine, which is fine with me.
But I just like knowing the word. It is a particularly useful word when one lives on the desert. According to Wikipedia, “The term was coined in 1964 by two Australian researchers, Bear and Thomas, for an article in the journal Nature.”
I love that smell! (OK, OK. Technically smell is a verb, and I love that aroma, but it sounds so formal.)
I felt the same sense of connection with petrichor as when I first heard virga used. As NewMexiKen no doubt knows, never, spell it verga.