I asked Facebook friends what smells evoke early memories?
Many responded. Often their memories strike a chord also with me.
Ultimately I might paste some of those observations anonymously here, but for now I beg any reader to please suggest an iconic smell, or a few.
If you feel the smell is strongly bound to a time / era or place, please add a note. I'll start with a few:
Many responded. Often their memories strike a chord also with me.
Ultimately I might paste some of those observations anonymously here, but for now I beg any reader to please suggest an iconic smell, or a few.
If you feel the smell is strongly bound to a time / era or place, please add a note. I'll start with a few:
- freshly mown grass
- the season's first wood fires (in Maine, before noses stuff-up for the winter)
- creosote (maybe old telephone poles, or a recently tarred road)
- popcorn
- .... what smells move, arouse, or awaken you?
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