I was recently chatting with K about scents. I think that the smells of a place, person, or moment are incredibly underestimated. Sometimes I forget names and even faces..but I always remember smells. Some scents always take you away....
My grandmother has worn the same perfume for as long as I can remember. Whenever I am near her, I am enveloped in a whirl of memories.
Two darling friends from college ( who just recently moved back in together!! woo hoo) always had the most amazing scents in their apartment. There was always a Trapp candle burning..and to this day..one whiff and I think I'm back on the girls' couch, sipping a glass of red wine while chatting our college days away.
The husband wears one and one only cologne. I could bathe in the stuff. It reminds me of high school...sitting in front of him in Spanish class and literally swooning when he walked by. I used to drench his t-shirts in the stuff when I went away and bury my nose in the luxury of him. I even found a candle once that perfectly replicated the scent...oh heaven in a bottle.
Cedar reminds me of camp...lotion always takes me to my mothers bedside, kissing her goodnight...evergreen is Christmas eve and honeysuckle takes me back to the house I grew up in.
Aren't these kind of memories wonderful. To be whisked away to a person or place you love just by the twitch of your nose! Scents are so personal and so very important.
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