Writer's Block: Smells like teen spirit
Oct. 27th, 2010 09:04 amAre there any scents that invoke childhood memories?
Submitted By warpaintwoman
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Following a childhood adventure that saw me faceplant into a tree at 60kmph my sense of smell clocks in at around 25%. At a guess. It's hard to prove a negative and I don't remember what 100% was like, but I do know that people routinely comment on how good food smells and I wasn't aware there was food. That said, some smells do get through easily. Nag Champa incense puts me right back in my first year of university. Specifically a two-level Queenslander in Townsville, all war-era kitchen, unpolished wooden floors, and a bedroom that was a partitioned off section of the front porch/sunroom. Vertical glass blinds, clothes hung on a broomstick suspended from the ceiling. A pair of opshop pants that I wore to death because they were loose enough to allow a full range of movement, whch I needed for two hours of warmup (yoga, tai chi, etc etc) in the Cow Shed from 6-8am every morning. They wore through in the seat real quick and I wound up patching them with a large square of white-and-red polka dotted material.
Half the class had bones in their hair, so it wasn't especially unusual. It was a Bachelor of Theatre course for Chrissakes. In Queensland.