Smelly swirls
It is amazing how certain smells bring back memories..
A chance browsing through Sephora catalog a few days back brought me to an ad for some perfume (I forget the name), a sniff and it reminded me of tamil weddings..
the scent of the sandalwood smell seeped into well-preserved pattu sarees that make an appearance once in a blue moon (I always thought kanchipuram sarees had a distinct smell, even the zari has a special smell), pink rose petals strewn around and trampled upon, a mix of perfumes and deos – cheap and expensive, rosewater and sandalwood paste used to welcome guests, body odor, faint whiffs of onion sambhar, the strange smell of vibudhi (ash) and kumkumam as strangers bless the couple…….
The human mind is indeed strange and amazing… a sniff of some random perfume brought back so many memories…
Anonymous
June 5, 2008 at 4:41 amyou are right…associations with smell are very strong..
mandira
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Ann
June 4, 2008 at 8:15 pmCould not agree with you more! Smells are incredibly powerful – so evocative of memory and emotion. Such deja vu. Food, for me, can be the same way too. 🙂