week 24

What is your favorite scent?

Scents can com­fort us. They trig­ger mem­o­ries more often than any other single-sense stim­uli because the olfac­tory cen­ter of the brain is adja­cent to the area in which we store long-term mem­o­ries. Scents can remind us of a favorite time or place or per­son. They can make us feel safe or exhil­i­rated. What is your favorite smell? Why is it your favorite scent? Does it remind you of something?

How are other peo­ple Slanting? Check the com­ments! Leave a link to your Slant there!


Sorry to be late today. I’ve been expe­ri­enc­ing dra­matic con­nec­tion issues, and am hav­ing my modem replaced.

13 Responses to “Saturday Slant: Favorite Scent”

    Kayla Ann
    August 16th, 2003 at 15:31 EDT

    MY ANSWER:
    Doesn’t water­melon have sort of a scent? If it does that’s my favorite scent because it reminds me of a pic­ture of my father and I when I was about 3. We are sit­ting on the linoleum floor at my old house and there’s a huge mess of water­melon every­where. Dad is look­ing at me and I just have the biggest grin on my face. I can barely remem­ber that day, but I remem­ber what I was think­ing when that pic­ture was taken. “Uh Oh! We’re in trou­ble now!” I have no idea of the con­se­quences of that lit­tle escapade but I’m still here, 11 years later, so it couldn’t have been too ter­ri­bly bad.

    Margot
    August 16th, 2003 at 16:12 EDT

    What is your favorite scent? My two favorite scent are vanilla and greek sea­son­ing, vanilla because reminds me of the bak­ing my favorite cof­fee cake and greek sea­son­ing because it reminds me of the love of my life.
    (recipes on my xanga site)

    Dorothy
    August 16th, 2003 at 22:23 EDT

    Nothing as arous­ing as a great scent…I’m up!

    Frida
    August 17th, 2003 at 02:51 EDT

    Here’s mine…My most hon­est answers to ques­tions like these always seem to be non-answers for some rea­son. Anyway, I’ve posted since then, so click here to go directly to that entry.

    Roon
    August 17th, 2003 at 07:56 EDT

    Mine is up. Surprisingly, this was a toughie for me.

    Jaime
    August 17th, 2003 at 15:29 EDT

    Mine’s up. :)

    Tish
    August 18th, 2003 at 12:59 EDT

    Up!

    Vix
    August 22nd, 2003 at 22:07 EDT
    granni39
    August 23rd, 2003 at 06:46 EDT

    mine is up! ;-)

    Frida
    August 23rd, 2003 at 14:42 EDT

    Here it is…I’d say that’s the least per­sonal thing in the entry, though.

    George Orwell
    August 23rd, 2003 at 15:16 EDT

    I rec­om­mend peo­ple seek out incense stores that carry Japanese incense.

    There will be a vari­ety of refined smells avail­able, and there is no “stick” inside the incense, so when it burns, you get a pure effect.

    Pariah Burke
    August 23rd, 2003 at 18:31 EDT

    I’ll have to look for some of those.

    mimi
    June 12th, 2004 at 21:16 EDT

    i like the smell of sun­screen. i like the smell of incense. i like the smell of hugo boss and armani imporio.

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