What smells as good as it tastes?
Lime. My #2 favorite smell and my #4 favorite taste. Here’s something about my favorite two limey and ready products:
How To Prevent Scurvy and Get a Buzz
in this issue of the Seattle Weekly
Incidentally, my other top four smells are: violets, cardamom, Bailey’s and coffee, and pho. And yes, every one of these smells is grafted with a thick coat of memories. We are mammals. It makes perfect sense that we are able to have such visceral, vivid memories, triggered by the whiff of a perfume or a certain pipe tobacco. Remembering bad smells keeps us alive, but remembering good smells and having feelings about them makes us more than Cro-Magnon.
June 27th, 2008 at 8:00 am
I’m unfamiliar with cardamom, but I would include freshly baked cinnamon rolls on my list. Auslese Riesling would also fit in somewhere.
June 27th, 2008 at 9:34 am
Am I the only one who is extremely fond of the smell of bleach and/or chlorine?