i'm mostly not attached to smells one way or another but there's a single exception which is anything that smells like the perfume my first girlfriend wore. anytime i smell that it stops me in my tracks. i have no idea what it is though
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nor do i have any idea how to describe it. it occupies an island in my sensory memory attached to my memories of kissing her and almost nothing else
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Ideas:
1. There are a few components that show up in a lot of perfumes (lavender, vetyver, etc) maybe in smelling those you can figure out what it contained
2. If you remember the bottle shape it could help if it is distinguishable enough, same with the brand
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True! And in my case it's a cheap vanilla extract. Sometimes it hits me in a bakery
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I had an exchange student live with my family in high school, had a huge crush on him & we fooled around some
well he wore a strong smelling hair gel and left the bottle in our bathroom when he left, years later I sometimes pop the bottle open & get hit with a flood of memories
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haaa i love that you still have the bottle
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Exactly the same for me; I assume the smell for me is some common ingredient in cheap perfume—I ran across it several times in hallways when teaching high school.
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oh i’m so glad i’m not the only one lol. i can imagine that being distracting 😅
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if it vaguely smells like my first girlfriend’s dog it takes over my whole experience immediately
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I think it was mostly like she smelled like her dog, and her dog was the platonic form of that. Her dog didn’t even smell like dog though, the whole situation was aromically pretty good
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was just thinking about this the other day
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i don’t remember what my old boyfriends smelled like
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