If there's one small luxury I'm grateful for every day it's perfume. It wasn't until I ran out, for the first time in forever, that I realised how much it meant to me. It's a ritual, night and day.
At the moment it's Burberry London, which is beautiful, but my all time favourite is Sicily by D&G - divine!
The power of smell to evoke memories is something I've always been acutely aware. Whenever I smell vanilla it takes me back to junior high school - because one of my best friends used to drench herself in it.
A study by Bruce Turetsky, a psychiatry professor, proves that smell can be more memory provoking than any other sense. He says different scents may "have a greater ability to bring up an emotional memory in you than seeing a picture or hearing a voice."
Here's hoping I'm not smelling of Sicily on an occasion I'd rather forget.
Has anyone ever had a memory evoked by a familiar scent?
Saturday, August 7, 2010
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