Smells
It's interesting how different smells can affect someone. They can influence your mood and even remind you of good or bad moments in your life.
Even then, changes in life can affect how you perceive different smells and what you may consider your favorite scents.
I, personally, love the smell of clean laundry, right out of the dryer. I'm learning that smell has a tendency to cling to certain things and I can enjoy it for more than just a few moments.
It's funny that I've found this love of the smell of cleanliness when I'm not always good at keeping things tidy. I wonder if it's partially a nostalgia thing for me personally, as my grandmother is a bit of a clean freak and I smelt cleanliness a lot as a child.
It's interesting the way smells can affect people, the right smell, in the right moment can ruin a moment or make it that much better.
The smell that turns me off the most is concentrated cigarette smoke, the only way I encounter it is when I'm near a chain smoker, or someone who lives with one. The way it clings to clothes drives me crazy. Yet, cigarette smoke, well smoke in general, can be an awesome smell. It's all about quantity in that case though.
Now that I think about the enjoyment of smoke smell, I think I can also pass that off as a nostalgia thing. A comfort smell, so to speak.
Maybe I'm more of a nostalgic person than I thought...
All I know is that lately I seem to be encountering the smells more and in the moments that either one hits me, I can't help but stop and take it all in.
I just hope that I keep encountering those smells in the quantity I have been for a long time. I don't look forward to the time when that changes, hopefully it doesn't.
Even then, changes in life can affect how you perceive different smells and what you may consider your favorite scents.
I, personally, love the smell of clean laundry, right out of the dryer. I'm learning that smell has a tendency to cling to certain things and I can enjoy it for more than just a few moments.
It's funny that I've found this love of the smell of cleanliness when I'm not always good at keeping things tidy. I wonder if it's partially a nostalgia thing for me personally, as my grandmother is a bit of a clean freak and I smelt cleanliness a lot as a child.
It's interesting the way smells can affect people, the right smell, in the right moment can ruin a moment or make it that much better.
The smell that turns me off the most is concentrated cigarette smoke, the only way I encounter it is when I'm near a chain smoker, or someone who lives with one. The way it clings to clothes drives me crazy. Yet, cigarette smoke, well smoke in general, can be an awesome smell. It's all about quantity in that case though.
Now that I think about the enjoyment of smoke smell, I think I can also pass that off as a nostalgia thing. A comfort smell, so to speak.
Maybe I'm more of a nostalgic person than I thought...
All I know is that lately I seem to be encountering the smells more and in the moments that either one hits me, I can't help but stop and take it all in.
I just hope that I keep encountering those smells in the quantity I have been for a long time. I don't look forward to the time when that changes, hopefully it doesn't.