smell DammitJanet The smell has been fading for years now His smell It comes and goes, like a faint wind A whisper … It’s familiar It’s safe It’s comforting It’s sad A flood comes back to me Like I’m dying Memories of how life used to be But as it goes He goes And he's gone 020729 ... pilgrim One of the most Primal Senses Deep and Mysterious Hard Wired To the Ancient Limbic Triggers That allowed Life the Luxury of Survival And gave It Time to Ponder The Essence of Awareness. The Faint Chemical Signals That Conjure Up The Past And Bind Memory Image to Scent Scent to Sensation Sensation to Reverie And back to Scent again. The Comfort of Familiarity. The Safety of the Clan. The Awareness Before the Thought. 020730 ... no reason i didn't realize you had a distinct smell until i got home and realized i smelled like you 090319 ... no reason thankfully not like smoke 090319 ... nr i miss it. it's just one of those things. i think i'm moving past things, or that i want to move past things, but then i remember it or smell it and things come rushing back. 160303 ... Soma If blather_red were a physical_space I would hope that it smelled distinctly of pine, woodsmoke, and clove. I would also settle for the smell of perhaps freshly toasted popcorn. 231218 ... ancasa.reyn just as trying to describe colours to a blind person is impossible trying to describe scents or smells to me would be folly i have had virtually no sense of smell my entire life occasionally i have smelled a freshly opened can of coffee or jar of peanut butter not once have i walked into a house and by smell alone knew what was for dinner teen spirit? fuhgeddaboudit once i smelled burning leaves as i drove through a stream of smoke that drifted across a highway but if you were to cover my eyes and put me in a room with burning leaves i would not be able to identify the smell if i smelled it at all once while at university i put a potato in a toaster oven not realizing that a plastic timer was sitting on top of the oven less than forty minutes later the apartment was filled with smoke and i with my back to the toaster eventually saw the build-up of haziness that streamed from the kitchen i didn't smell a thing i have told women 'i will never tell you that you smell nice' i wish that weren't the case i wish, too, just once i could bring my nose to just below a woman's ear to know her scent i have joked that the only time i can smell is when i don't bathe and yes i can taste perhaps not with the ability to recognize nuances in tastes but peas do not taste like broccoli does not taste like spinach does not taste like brussels sprouts do not taste like green beans so often i have heard people talk of memories triggered by smells this is so foreign to me it is a land i will never visit 250724 what's it to you? who go blather from