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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Cheating?
Date: 2003-03-19 03:22 am (UTC)I have to admit that as much as I'm OK with the taste of coffee, it's the smell of it I'm really in love with. And no, I'm not just saying that because I ran out of instant coffee and had to make 'real' stuff this morning. :)