Smell...

[arienmir]

Smell is one of the most powerful aids to memory I know, and one of the senses that is able to illicit some of the strongest emotional responses, well at least in me.

I recently spent what some have described as a ludicrous amount of money on fresh Chanterelle Mushrooms. Now as far as I was concerned I was not so much buying the mushrooms as

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[pondside]

I can still smell the eucalyptus, it's embedded in my sinus and I'm liking it.

Scents -- patchouli will always remind me of a Navy Great Coat I once had the held 4 pints of rum in each pocket. Someone spilled a vial of patch on it. It was indeed vile.

[gypsyamber]

Oh yes...smell is incredibly powerful. A big part of planning the garden that we'll make will be all about choosing the smell to hve in it. I definitely want a wattle tree...and can stand and sniff wattle for hours, and I love the bright happy yellow. Roses are only truly roses for me if they have an intoxicating scent, yet I don't like bottled rose scent

[derigueur]

Absolutely!

Thing is, I have a reasonably good sense of smell-memory but a fairly bad *conscious* sense of smell. So I'll be wandering around getting flashbacks for ages before I realise the trigger stimulus is coming from my nose, and even then I'm unlikely to be able to identify what I'm smelling. It leads to some strange conversations.

"I can smell breasts!!!"
"What?!"
"Breasts. There's breasts around here."
"Oh, you mean you can smell *sandalwood*."
"Yeah, right. Breasts."