PROMPT: Do You Have a Reminiscence That’s Linked to a Odor?
I’ve lots of reminiscences, each good and unhealthy…however I’ve to set one thing straight up-front…I’ve had a traumatic mind damage (TBI) and when your mind bounces round inside your cranium, it may well do one thing bizarre to your olfactory receptors contained in the mind. For instance, it may well make you scent issues that aren’t there (AKA “phantom smells”). Additionally, my sense of scent shouldn’t be so eager since I additionally had labored in a pool retailer the place the scent of chlorine was so robust, I believe it additionally burned out my sinuses and left me with nearly NO sense of scent. However my nostril and mind bear in mind…
I’m a kind of people that may scent rain coming. It’s one among my most favourite smells. In fact, my beforehand damaged rib and middle-aged joints can inform me that rain is coming far earlier than I can scent it, which can simply be a phantom scent/reminiscence…I’m actually undecided lately…
A scent I merely can not stand is that of Fireball, the favored cinnamon whiskey. No, I didn’t get drunk on it, earlier than you kind any laughable opinions. That was what I smelled on my abusers breath as he was beating me unconscious in 2017 (which resulted within the TBI). It makes me gag, to this present day. A pal thought I used to be being melodramatic and purchased me a shot of it, whereas I used to be visiting the restroom, to which I got here again and caught the whiff of pink scorching cinnamon and vomited violently right into a planter subsequent to the bar. And I had but to drink something alcoholic! She thought that was SO hilarious, however I didn’t…to me, that’s the scent of worry and of almost dying. That isn’t comical within the least…my BF and I even needed to lately excuse ourselves from a household perform as a result of they have been burning a candle that smelled of cinnamon “red-hots,” as a result of it was making me queasy and anxious. True story!
I do know after I was anxious, as that was typically and regular as a DV sufferer, I might bury my face in my Pug’s fur, in her neck space, as she had so many fats rolls that she’d look as if she was put on a high-necked Elizabethan collar. Anyway, I did that as a result of she was my emotional help companion and my greatest pal (my abuser wouldn’t permit me to have human mates). She had a yeasty scent combined with the pine scent of the shampoo that I’d use on her fairly-frequently, as she liked to roll on high of lifeless critters within the yard; therefore, my furry bestie would get a shower roughly weekly. That scent comforted me greater than any human may. She was my favourite pet and I liked her dearly! I needed to put her down when she was almost twelve years outdated, so she may die with dignity (and so my abuser wouldn’t harm her). I held her and felt the life depart her physique, when the vet injected her. I cried and buried my face in her neck, to be comforted one final time. I’ll always remember her scent so long as I reside…effectively, and she or he additionally smelled like a McDonald’s cheeseburger, her favourite meal and what I gave her earlier than we went on a final stroll and to the vet workplace…
My Mom handed away in June 2022. My Dad introduced me a few of her issues, together with her toiletries. I sorted by means of issues and located her two perfumes that she at all times wore. Her on a regular basis fragrance was Yardley’s Lily-of-the-Valley and her fancy fragrance that she saved for church or particular events was White Shoulders. These two smells have been so acquainted, that I cried for a great thirty minutes…these scents have been comforting me and making me home-sick unexpectedly! They now have a spot of honor amongst my basket of perfumes.
A scent that brings me pleasure is that of my Grandma B’s snickerdoodle cookies. Smelling these cookies baking smelled like childhood and like house to me. I had met my BF on Fb and we chatted for a number of months earlier than going out on a date. I discussed that reminiscence solely ONE TIME and he remembered it! When he got here to select me up for our date, he introduced me a bouquet of flowers, a Marvel Girl motion determine, and a sq. plastic container of snickerdoodles that he himself had baked! As he was saying how his weren’t pretty much as good as his Mother’s cookies, I tore that plastic lid off and buried my nostril in the course of the cookies. All I smelled was pure bliss and pleasure! He, alternatively, had stopped explaining and was observing me in disbelief, most likely questioning what he had gotten himself into. Thank goodness we labored out, as a result of he’s “my particular person.” He will get me!
It’s extremely superb that smells could make an individual run a gamut of feelings. I do know I did simply scripting this publish!
