QotD: Scents & Sensibilities
What's the strongest association you have between a scent and a memory?
Mine is kinda sad. The smell of hospices, and to a smaller extent, hospitals, reminds me of my mom's illness. Right after she died I could conjure up the smell myself just thinking about it. When my grandfather died in 2000 he ended up in the same hospice she had been in when I was 12. He was even in the same room she had been in. That was really hard, going back there again. It still smelled the same.
On a happier note, when I was really little, maybe 2 or 3, I had a
little purple rubbery horse that smelled like lavender. It was tiny. I
think it might have been a keychain at one point. I have a very clear
memory of searching all over the house one day for this horse and
finally discovering I had been holding it in my hand the whole time. An
early prediction of things to come! But lavender still make me think of
that horse.
