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The descriptions of smells in books is something that always sticks out to me. In Don Quixote, for example, itâs the chivalric scent of ambergris; in One Hundred Years of Solitude, the smell of Colonel Aureliano BuendĂaâs lavender-perfumed moustache lingers on the page. At the university library, I would often be blanketed by the warm, woody aroma of oud whenever a Muslim student walked past my desk. Smelling good makes you identifiable, it helps you feel confident, and it pleases everyone around you
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I think our sense of smell is one of the most beautiful things about our bodies. You can find me standing in a pine forest, huffing cardamom, taking pics of soaps in restaurant WCs, getting a headache in the fragrance section of the bespoke homegoods store. Some art incorporates smell, such as paint that effuses the scent of shoveled soil or an orchestra accompanied by scent cannons firing plumes across the audience, but I cherish this intangible gift of ours because itâs one that mass media canât reach. Itâs amazing that itâs connected so closely to our memory -- that you can smell a cologne or the inside of a tent and instantly hallucinate a school dance or a family camping trip you forgot about or, at the very least, didnât mean to think about so vividly today. I know this will sound privileged and silly, but as a relatively young person my biggest fear from the pandemic wasnât death â it was losing my sense of smell. I just know that itâs something I would miss so much. It enhances taste and experience and I would go crazy without it.
here is a very incomplete list of things I think smell good:
-tomato vines
-Shoyeido friend of pine incense
-garlic, raw and cooked
-anise
-palo santo
-coffee, raw and cooked
-armpits (lemme get in there)
-briney ocean
-tennis balls
-old lifejackets
-bergamot / patchouli stuff from L:A Bruket
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Smell is better at making you remember than any other sense. A simple scent can make you feel that your grandpa is standing near you on the subway platform, can transport you back to 7:58am running late through the halls of your high school, and even inspired Proust to write an entire reflective novel on childhood after smelling a madeleine (Swann's Way), and by writing this inspired researchers to study the phenomenon.
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Every book has its own smell, but library books have a specific undertone that I can't quite put my finger on. An amalgamation of all the places they've been. A reminder of all the readers who came before me.
Sep 3, 2024
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