Things that just ARE.

[Booldawg]

I've noticed that the inside of an empty mint tic-tac dispenser smells better than the taste of the actual tic-tacs themselves. strange.

[cazzz1975]

the smell of baking bread is better than eating bread

[smurfchops]

Why do you smell the inside of the container ?

[poodicat]

smurf its suprising what people sniff lol

[boxtops]

How many times have you been knocked out by the smell of me sucking a menthol sweet?

[Booldawg]

LOL! why not!

Apparently your sense of smell is more memory envoking that your other senses; you store the memory of smells much efficiently than other senses.

[boxtops]

Oh lor' that means they remember me as Menthol Woman, not for my wit and/or business acumen...

[joggerjayne]

That is true, booldawg ... our smell memory is much stronger than our visual memory.

[Booldawg]

the trouble is jj even though its memory envoking you often cant place the memory of smell to where you orginally got it from - it more fragmented than other memory enducers such a sounds or sights.

[NoMercy]

I always find perfumes evoke strong memories for me. If I smell Michael Kors, I am instantly transported back to Villamoura in Portugal.

[joggerjayne]

But don't you sometimes smell something, say ... cooking ... and you instantly remember being in a school dining hall smelling the same smell ?

Or you smell something in the air, and you know exactly where you were when you smelt it before ?

(I think the air here has a distinctive smell ... when you get off the train, I think you'd know where you were)

[joggerjayne]

On, HB ... the Algarve has a VERY distinctive smell.

You could be blindfold, and when they open the plane door at Faro you'd know EXACTLY where you were.

I love the smell of the Algarve. When you've been there a day or two, you stop noticing it.

[joggerjayne]

... but why Michael Kors and Vilamoura ?

[Booldawg]

I think JJ has the knack of matching smells with the time/place. I guess its like a gifted musician ytou can listed to a chord and say ,thats an E,B and G. Me, I just dont geddit!