Ha! There really is a word for that familiar, craggy kind of smell of the rain: petrichor. It comes from the Greek words
petra (stone) and
ichor (blood of the gods and goddesses) and was coined by two Australian researchers in 1964.
Mental Floss' John Green is full of fascinating facts like this as he teaches us
48 Things You Didn't Know Had Names (video):
http://mentalfloss.com/article/52660/48-things-you-didnt-know-had-names
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