"Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent
can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer
beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family
dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a
Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines
hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories
explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth."
- Diane Ackerman
The Five Senses
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