i can bring back certain scents from memory
maybe you can too
yesterday in a hospital room i was explaining to mom that because of his septoplasty surgery three weeks earlier he has lost his sense of smell
but I was sitting eating a banana and he was able to smell it
same thing when I walked in with a cup of coffee
i could not say that some people have the ability to summon a scent from memory
because this has not been proven yet
List of scents I can summon on demand:
- The scent the stem of a rose bleeds right when it’s cut.
- The body odor of grandmothers.
- The honey-sweet scent of breast milk on a baby’s warm cheeks.
- A banana.
- Coffee.
- Mastic.
- Amaretto.
- Leather.
- Tobacco, pipe Tobacco.
every scent i am able to recall is associated with a pleasant memory
i an not able to recall a scent associated with a bad memory
~ last tambourine, take it all in while you can
Notes:
- last tambourine = Someone we know.
- Photo: Marta Dzedyshko (via Pixels)
Live & Learn 
scent is very powerful and holds some of the strongest sensory memories
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so agree Beth.
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Yes! and it’s relevant to physical survival. (ants’ sense of smell is more powerful than dogs’… Wally should know that deer scat won’t kill him…?)
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Let’s hope so Valerie!
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Have always been fascinated by the way in which a smell can immediately take me back to a particular place/time/experience. And as Beth said, have always heard that our olfactory memories are the most powerful. Fascinating.
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So agree. A whiff of lavender, or birch does it for me.
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Scent is as powerful as its cohorts, and as visceral a trigger…and whoever wrote this, thank you for posting…
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🙂 Agree Mimi. And if you see Dale’s comment, she let the cat out of the bag!
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Thank you for sharing DK.
LOVE this photo pairing.
I heard that highly intuitive people can bring a scent back from memory.
When I got COVID I lost my senses of taste and smell. That was not fun.
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Thanks Sawsan! Your haven’t lost your smell for stirring up trouble!
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I did not stir trouble. But you definitely are in deep trouble, Mr.!
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Our Sawsan is so very poetic. I really wish she would share more of her writings… I miss Last Tambourine.
As for this, the sense of smell is so very powerful… After Austin died, I kept a pile of his dirty laundry on the floor. Don’t ask why I left it there, I just did. I found out Mick would go in there daily to scoop it up and deep breathe it in. He didn’t tell me until I finally brought myself to wash it. He was so mad… and now it’s me who tries to find his scent in the sweaters I kept…
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Awwwwww. Moved!
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Wait, Sawsan wrote this?! I’m so out of the loop. Beautiful, evocative imagery.
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It is Beautiful! Agree!
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Not sure if a memory can trigger a scent (maybe), but scents sure can trigger memories.
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I need to think about that Anneli.
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There’s a flowery scent that is like lily-of-the-valley that always reminds me of women walking their babies in strollers about 10:30 at night in the summertime in Greece when the heat of the day is more tolerable, and they pass by a place with some kind of tropical flowers or shrubs and banana tree leaves hanging over a white wall. If I smell that scent, it takes me back there, and that’s 45 years ago.
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Wow. I’m reading your comment and thinking how beautiful Anneli’s recall is. Amazing!!!
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Well, there you are. That’s testimony to the power of scents with regard to our memory.
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Right!!!
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