Smells "lost" and "cute"; things out of place

While some food items have been known to smell "nervous" or "dangerous" , these days I'm hearing a new smell descriptor, "lost." Unlike nervous and dangerous, lost seems to apply to nonfood items, usually plastic or lotion. Then last night at a birthday party AKA smelled a bouquet of pink tulips and announced "it smells like cute."

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I have to be careful each night before bed to pick up evidence of anything I've done after AKA has gone to bed, such as tea cup left on coffee table, book or magazine left on couch, watering can left on shelf near plants, etc. Things found to be in unexpected places in the morning after she wakes up lead to upset and interrogation-- "why you put that there?"-- and scolding "I don't want you putting that there!" This morning it was my sweater hanging on the handle of the vacuum that led to fear and trepidation. I use the vacuum way too often to use it as a coat tree (unlike in the household where I grew up) so it definitely was out of the ordinary, and I don't know why I left it there last night. Momentary insanity and fatigue is my only defense. But these aren't valid excuses to AKA, so I had to start the day (even before coffee) reassuring her that the dark sweater on the vacuum was not a monster, and that I won't put it there again.