The Retainer

The other morning Jared found an old retainer in one of the drawers.  Mallory grabbed it from his hand and said, "This smells like my teacher." After many thoughts running though my mind of
what she could possibly mean by that, I was happy and relieved to find out that it was the minty smell that her teacher smelled like.  I guess it was a compliment, but I'm not sure it would be appropriate to start complimenting people by telling them they smell like a retainer.  I can only hope she didn't actually tell her teacher that!