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Certain scents ground us into a place, letting us know where we are even when, cognitively, we already know. Petrichor is one of those scents for Santa Fe-born artist Madeleine Tonzi. The mix of sage, piñon, and soil lifted into the air by the fall of the first rain conjures deep, emotional memories tied to growing up with a place—the type of scent you don’t always notice until it’s no longer a part of daily life.