myrmepropagandist on Nostr: Scents trigger the most powerful memories. Like a time machine, fragrance exposes the ...

Scents trigger the most powerful memories. Like a time machine, fragrance exposes the past— a moment seemingly forgotten: suddenly present, vivid, detailed.

Curiously, scent-uncovered memories aren’t always important or intense events, but rather one may suddenly recall a past liminal state, a vanished sense of ordinary existence, that through self-transformation, growth and aging has become distant and extraordinary. 1/