19/7/19
Please tell me a story about the smells in your life: tell me about a smell or odour that makes you happy, uplifting, makes you feel good, creates a good memory, a smell that when you come across it, put a smile on your face, and good feeling in your body.
Tell me about another smell, one that makes you feel bad, brings you back to a bad memory, bad experience makes you sad, feeling down, nauseous, sick.
AG
GOOD
I love this exercise! it makes me think about the smells I like and why do I like them.
I love the smell of gas, petrol. I love to smell petrol station, it makes me feel good, I know there are many people that disgusted by this smell. This smell gives me a strange feeling that I like.
So we talked about it a little bit - for me who's not much of a driver so for me it can be the smell of adventure, it's a quiet, peaceful moment before going outside the city, road trip, but for A she doesn't really understand where it comes from, it usually turned on her taste buds as well (TF)
I also love the smell of fresh wall paint, I remember when I was a young girl, I wanted to lick the walls, and when I felt my taste buds turned on by this as well.
I read about this phenomena in connotation of small kids and dogs, that it means sometimes that they have a lack of calcium in their bones (TF).
BAD
The smell of rotten eggs make me sick and gives me a feeling of disgust and nauseous.
Smell of hospitals makes me want to run away.
I think the worst one is the smell of bleach in retirement homes, I wonder if it related to the thought of death and clean together (TF)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shR7s3aujMY
KD
For smell, my favourite, happiness-inducing smell is orange blossom. I grew up in Ra’anana, surrounded by orange orchards. Plus my grandfather had orchards in Rishon le-Zion that we visited regularly. The smell reminds me of home and of the freedom and happiness in my childhood. I love smelling it when I land is Israel (I recently learned that they ensure the air near the airport smells of orange blossom because apparently I’m not the only one who is emotionally connected to this smell and associates it positively with Israel!)
I’m struggling to come up with a smell that I associate with negative emotions. Of course, there are smells that I don’t like (vomit is a key one!) but I don’t think it’s connected to particularly bad emotions.
N
She has been using aromatherapy and Bach flowers which she connected with well and are displayed in her art.
When she was a student back in Israel she was practising ways to cope with anxiety and used the aromatherapy in the room to allow her to concentrate, sleep better and relax. here in London, she went back to the aromatherapy, now being used directly on her skin.
Scratch and sniff stickers on my quilting matrix
Smells from childhood, from Israel, distinctive smells:
orange blossom. cacao, coffee, strawberry jello,
white paint, fuel patrol.
For me: smell of moss with spices - my father's house
smell of subway sandwiches - reminded me nauseous from my pregnancy with Guy
vomit, banana
smell of pub - wood+alcohol+cigarettes
Cinnamon, patrol, white paint,
MS
I love the smell of orange loaf cake that just came out of the oven, or cinnamon cake, give me warmth feeling, feeling of home, fresh.
I hate the smell of laundry detergent in the bottle (not on clothing), I drank it once and then I remember the burning feeling in my throat, and the very low place that I was when it happened, every time I smell it.
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