The Memory Of Scents
For a 32-year-old, my memory is atrocious
For a 32-year-old, my memory is atrocious. My marvellous hubby reinterprets and prompts me multiple times a day. And he typically, with patience, re-listens to my inane tales of growing up etc. without much dissent.
However, if I pick up a whiff of the accurate symmetry of Old English, moth balls, day-old bacon grease, banana cake, and maturing nogahide, I am swept away to Grandmaw and grandpaws house. When I call forth an illustration of this nature, most people will debate, 'oh yeah, all grandparent dwellings smell like that.' One nearly universal example of this is the distinct 'Grandmother Bathroom scent,' which combines the more 'practical' odors with lavender, and the entire line of AVON products! But other that, I can argue for being able to distinguish from a corpuscle or two, which grandparent's habitation, and I'll probably recollect some memories to boot. I bet you can too - it's bewildering.
If you can learn to control the scents you immerse yourself with, you can recall and reminisce (maybe acquire something fresh?), from innumerable events in your life - EVEN if your memory is high-risk like mine.
When I walk through my neighborhood and smell the fresh-cut grass and orange blossoms, I laugh, remembering laying spread-eagle in the grassy middle of the University quad, mid-day, having drained too many pitchers of margheritas with my cohort. Similarly, Nag-Champa incense will always remind me of the little 1950s bungalow I shared with my little sister; and the time we had a house party and sprinkled a trail of glitter from the street, through the house, and out the back - there's probably still glitter in that carpet.
I also don't know a damn thing about cars, but I'll happily hang-out in a mechanic's garage because in my memory, motor oil and break fluid take me back to being fifteen years old, and learning how to 'three-foot clutch,' so my boyfriend's '69 Mustang wouldn't die. But perhaps the most powerful of these is the sweet smell that somehow originates from the top of my sweet little preschooler's head, and can draw-up countless moments from her birth onward. What IS that smell?? It's like Valium!
So in this brief article, I am centering on the control that scents have to call forth a person's memories, but in future articles I will add to this, and delve into using scents to: conjure different emotions, direct meditations in a forward motion, share aromatheraputic time with a therapist, guided groups, or others, etc.
So as you head to your local herbal shop or internet site, don't be intimated if you do not know the names of the herbs in incense blends, or if you're frighted you won't enjoy the ways they smell and taste. Let your memories guide you first. Does something remind you of your granddaddies pipe tobacco? Does the smell of flaming one stick of incense seem to clean the room and make you feel 'brilliant,' or does another odor draw you back into a soft cushion to ponder the universe?
That's wonderful! Once you begin drawing herbs, herbal incenses, essential oils, and other elements of the natural, organic world into your life, you might find that these positive, olfactory associations can help you in ways you'd never expect.
So if you are naive to the 'undeveloped powers of fragrances,' welcome!
by: Ramsi K. McGhee
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