Noses know
Mar. 19th, 2003 10:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ventaI've spent the last hour or so feeling randomly nostalgic about a particular period of my life. Well, not nostalgic, exactly, since it's not a time I look at with fondness, but unexpectedly reminded of it.
I've just worked out why. Last time I had on the jumper I'm wearing, I must also have been wearing a particular perfume. The jumper smells faintly of it, and it's a perfume I used to wear a lot at the time I'm remembering.
I find smell an unexpectedly evocative sense, and am regularly yanked to a particular memory because of some scent drifting past. Sometimes I find it difficult to place why the smell and the memory go together.
I wonder whether it's possible to associate them deliberately, and then use a scent as a particular 'trigger' to retrieve a memory.
Me? Cheating in the exam? Oh no. I always carry 200 small vials around with me...
I've just worked out why. Last time I had on the jumper I'm wearing, I must also have been wearing a particular perfume. The jumper smells faintly of it, and it's a perfume I used to wear a lot at the time I'm remembering.
I find smell an unexpectedly evocative sense, and am regularly yanked to a particular memory because of some scent drifting past. Sometimes I find it difficult to place why the smell and the memory go together.
I wonder whether it's possible to associate them deliberately, and then use a scent as a particular 'trigger' to retrieve a memory.
Me? Cheating in the exam? Oh no. I always carry 200 small vials around with me...
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sense of smell
Date: 2003-03-19 03:02 am (UTC)Read an interesting book called Fast Food Nation recently, amongst other things there were some interesting interviews with smell scientists (I'm sure they had a proper name).