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Quantum responsible for smells

forgotmyusernameforgotmyusername
edited March 2011 in General Discussion Posts: 2,782
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12827893

It took a bit of time for me to get my head around it but I didn't expect Mr.White and co to have created our sense of smell. Who would have thought it?

I have almost lost my sense of smell, but strangely I can identify certain smells that remind me of a special memory. One of these smells is popcorn - and I remember this smell because my dear old dad took me to my first Bond movie at that was a special moment.

What smell memoirs do you have?

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  • HASEROTHASEROT has returned like the tedious inevitability of an unloved season---
    Posts: 4,399
    fresh cut grass...

    i am a huge baseball fan - and that smell takes me back to when i was little, each summer running out onto the ball field under the hot sun, and playing baseball with friends - or in leagues... there was nothing like it.
  • boldfingerboldfinger
    Posts: 5,767
    Quoting forgotmyusername: I have almost lost my sense of smell, but strangely I can identify certain smells that remind me of a special memory.
    My profession includes treating the loss of the sense of smell. Out of experience I can say, if you would like to gain it back, forgotmyusername, it´s well worth to find a good osteopath, especially one who´s good in Craniosacral Therapy. A lot of lesions related to the sense of smell can be treated very nicely with that.


    I love to smell cities and places. Most towns have their distinctive smell. Houses as well. When I smell certain places I´ve not been in often, memories from selected yet totally different times come to my mind immediately. I know a place for example that at once reminded me of my early childhood and at the same time of an age around 12 or so. Fascinating stuff, those smells.
  • forgotmyusernameforgotmyusername
    Posts: 2,782
    thanks for the advice on regaining my smell. And yes, fresh cut grass is another smell i can smell but cricket is my game.

    Just had a whiff of Poison the perfume and that sends me back to the only girl I really loved. Now that is a heartbreak smell.
  • boldfingerboldfinger
    Posts: 5,767
    Quoting forgotmyusername: Just had a whiff of Poison the perfume and that sends me back to the only girl I really loved. Now that is a heartbreak smell.
    No wonder you lost your sense of smell. Find a better girl, and you´ll see you´ll smell again. ;-)
  • forgotmyusernameforgotmyusername
    Posts: 2,782
    http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21150047

    More evidence. It's effecting our nose.
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