Do you ever walk into a store, home, park, etc. and immediatley associate that place with the distinct smell of the place. I walked into the grocery store Winco and it had a certain smell about it and then I headed over to Smith's and though they are both grocery stores Smith's has a totally different smell then Winco. I walk into my home, my mom's home, my sister's home and we all have different smelling homes. As I walk into my mom's, as a smell the air I am taken back to my days living there as a child.
When you bake cookies, or homemade bread the smell brings you back to memories of good food, family, and fun!
When I smell rice cooking I think of my college days eating rice for almost every meal and all the food we use to eat.
I remember going back to where I served a mission in Missouri and the smell of humidity in the air brought back memories. I wonder if smell is connected to the memory part of our brain.
What are some of your favorite smells.
Rain, cookies and homemade bread baking, my mom's perfume, baby lotion, a newborn baby, my husband's cologne, my grandma, fire burning in the woods. All these smells bring great memories and makes me feel secure, safe, and loved.
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I love the smell of rain too and wood smoke off in the distance on a cold morning.
Rain, lemon-y cleaners, bath and body works "brown sugar and fig" lotion, aqua di gio cologne (wish my hubby would wear it!). I love how smells can trigger a memory. Okay, funny story about that. The smell of pine sol makes me think that someone threw up, because that is what my mom would clean with when the stomach flu was going around our house. The other day I had cleaned the bathroom with Pine Sol, and Parker came in and said "Who threw up?" I told him that no one did and why did he ask. He said, Oh, it just smells like you are cleaning up throw up! How funny. Needless to say I went out that very day and bought some different cleaner.
Smells constantly remind me of things.
...I love the smell of my husbands neck, when he has been outside working, and comes inside for a cold drink of water...or a baby just out of the bath and rubbed down from head to toe in baby lotion...my Mom's scarves, that are tucked away in a trunk (she loved to dress to the nines, and bathe in TABOO, every now & then I open up the drawer just to feel her close by...
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