Smell is one of the most powerful senses we have. There is plenty of neuroscience that links the olfactory bulb with both the hippocampus (important in memory association) and the thalamus and is probably the reason why smells evoke memories, and often strong ones at that.Whenever I smell coal, I'm transported to holidays as a child on the West Coast, visiting Nana or my brother when he was working in Greymouth.
I dislike the smell of hospitals (have spent too many hours in them or visiting people in them). I love the smell of good food, or a great wine.
But here is my list of favourite smells (in no particular order, it depends on my mood and my memories!)
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