Everyone has a distinct smell. (If you don't already agree with me, then I don't know where you've been all these years.)
I love it when you have something of someone with whom you have happy memories, and it can carry smell, like an article of clothing, or a stuffed animal. And I like the surprise when you pick it up when they're not around you, and you suddenly find the smell, and it instantly brings nice memories and thoughts to mind.
I have a friend who lent me a pair of cotton gloves when I had to bike home from her place on a very cold night last week. Today I picked them up to move them from my desk, and I happened to catch the scent. They smell like her, or at least like her home. It made me smile. She's been out of Germany for the weekend, so I haven't talked to her in a few days. It made me miss her even more and hope that she had a safe trip back again.
You can never smell your own scent though, can you? I sometimes wonder what I smell like... but sniff all around your clothing and your house, it's a futile effort! You can never smell that smell of your own, to which you are so accustomed now that you can't even smell it if you tried.
If we can't even notice our own smells any more, I can't imagine the endless number of other things that we don't even notice any more because we're so used to them. Appreciate everything. There is always so much to appreciate.
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This always really frustrated me. What do I smell like? There is no description except that I smell like me, and you smell like you.... I really never noticed that people had smells until I noticed that MEN had specific smells. I still have a much harder time picking out the smell of a certain woman than that of a man. Guess that's wiring for you, huh?
*laughing* Wiring. You're so funny :D . I agree that I usually notice smells on guys more prominently than on women, but then again, it could be "wiring" just as you said. I wonder if the opposite is true, and that guys pick up female scents better than male scents.... or if guys just naturally produce more smell overall. We could certainly say that for male dormitories :P .
who says guys can pick up female scents better then girls? i certainly can't :P. but i am special right?
i have actually been told on several occasions that i smell very good, but i never believe it because i've never smelled myself (at least, not a good smell!). but i think it is true that everyone has a distinct smell. i definitely associate certain smells with certain people. i do it with songs to, although i associate them with certain periods of my life. funny how senses and memory are so connected. incidentally, did you know that smell is our most basic sense and it is more connected with memory than any other? pretty cool.
Really?? Wow, I would have never expected that. People always talk about sight and sound more often regarding memory. I think our sense of smell is possibly more acute than we imagine, but we don't notice as much. Incidentally, I feel like we probably pick up a huge amount more through subconscious smelling than we expect.
I think it makes a lot of sense that smell is so closely tied with memory. Sights and sounds are good and all, but we have way too many word to help us describe them. I feel like smell carry with them a lot of emotions and sentiments and memories that can't really be explained away. I, for example, have certain smells associated with certain events/places/times in my life. Now I KNOW that when I smell that smell again I will be reminded of that time/place/etc., but ACTUALLY smelling it takes me further, makes me FEEL and remember more .. stuff that I probably couldn't even put into words. I couldn't tell you what the difference is between smelling that smell and just thinking about what I associate the smell with, but there's definitely a difference. It's weird. But SO cool.
(Also, When I came home yesterday, and my friend picked me up from the airport, I commented three different times on familiar smells --a car, a house, even the air smelled like New England in the fall. I thought of this post and the comments on it, and decided that I'd share my thoughts...) =)
[my apologies for the longness ... too interesting of a topic!]
Wow, don't ever apologize just for long comments and saying what you want to say on here =) . I'm always glad if something is interesting enough for replies back. And yes, smell is one curious sense.
(New England in the fall must be a great smell!)
hehe ... yay! =)
...and it smells like it's about to SNOW. I don't quite know what that smells like; the only word I can use to describe it is "cold", and maybe "crisp".
(oh, and point in case about scents being less describable than their sensational counterparts.)
Regarding weather, I can often definitely smell when rain is in the air and it's on its way. Not only that, by the way, but it's actually a fact that we can pick up scents more acutely when it's about to rain, because of the lower air pressure and such. Also interesting.
Hi. Here's Martin (the guy which sat in front of you in todays lecture about the Weimar literature).
Usually I don't comment other peoples blogs (at least not very often ;)
But this time I simply couldn't resist.
To put it straight - you should read "Das Parfüm" by Peter Süßkind. Or watch the movie. Quite chalanging for a non-German native speaker, but considering what I heared you talk there should be absolutely no problem.
Not only is it about smells in general, but also has one particular moment in it (exact in the middle) which describes the kind of feeling the protagonist has trying to "find" his own. And it nearly drives him crazy (Yeah...if that's possible). True. One of the best books ever wirtten.
Hey, danke für die Vorschlag, ich interessiere mich unbedingt daran!
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