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12 Aug 06 - 05:24 PM (#1808310) Subject: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Dave the Gnome I had a strange experience last night. I suffer from perennial allergic rhinitis which results in me having to take anti-histamines all year round and occasionaly having nthe need to have polyps removed from my nasal passages. Worst effect is that I very rarely have a sense of smell. Oddly enough when I am ill, like I have been this week, it comes back a little. Back to the strange experience. I often hear a snippet of a tune which reminds me of another. Or see someone that reminds me of someone else. But last night, for the first time, a sniff of something in the distance reminded me of something else. I could distinctly remember the aroma. Warm, oily, floral and spice intermingled. For the life of me I could not remember what it was. I cannot smell/remember it now but it was very pleasent and even more strange while it lasted. What do you call the memory of a amell? Cheers DtG |
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12 Aug 06 - 07:06 PM (#1808392) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Bill D I 'think' you are close to the phenomenon called 'synesthesia', in which one can 'hear numbers' or 'smell colors'... It is quite a field of research right now to study exactly how the brain processes memory and relates it to other senses. |
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12 Aug 06 - 07:12 PM (#1808394) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Janie Olfactory hallucination? |
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12 Aug 06 - 07:31 PM (#1808399) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Peace The term you want is 'odor memory'. |
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12 Aug 06 - 07:35 PM (#1808400) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: bobad Info here : http://www.macalester.edu/psychology/whathap/UBNRP/Smell/memory.html |
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12 Aug 06 - 07:54 PM (#1808408) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Alba It is also said that those that have crossed over use smell to get our attention. I smell my Mother's perfume when she is around and I smell the scent of freshly peeled Oranges when I am in strange places when it is someone I do not know who is trying to get my attention There are quite a few smells that I associated with different people who I am close to who have crossed over and visit from time to time. Just how it is for me so I thought I would throw in my tuppence worth...* smile * Jude |
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12 Aug 06 - 07:59 PM (#1808412) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: bobad "It is also said that those that have crossed over use smell to get our attention." I always blamed it on the dog. |
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12 Aug 06 - 08:03 PM (#1808414) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Alba LOL |
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12 Aug 06 - 08:05 PM (#1808415) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Peace "I always blamed it on the dog." Me too, especially after eating sweet pickled cocktail onions. |
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12 Aug 06 - 08:11 PM (#1808419) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: bobad You know you shouldn't be eating those Peace, they always give you gas. |
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12 Aug 06 - 08:12 PM (#1808421) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Peace Gas. Sheesh. I was being followed by people from OPEC. |
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12 Aug 06 - 08:25 PM (#1808428) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Janie Good site, bobad. Thanks. |
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12 Aug 06 - 10:25 PM (#1808481) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: open mike i have experienced fragrances in dreams... not as often as "sights" and "sounds" jsut waiting for the day that we can send and receive scents via smell-o-vision or something similar.. we have jpegs and mp3 -- what 's next/? hhh....patchouli....and Nag Champa....and lavender.... |
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12 Aug 06 - 11:36 PM (#1808512) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Amos Odd you should mention that. The one time I was fairly certain that my recently deceased father was "present" in my home, one of the reasons was the unusual smell of his tobacco (he was a pipe smoker). It was not smell I had ever smelled anywhere else, but it was sharply present in my room that morning. As far as a remindment of odors past, they are not hallucinatory. Some studies claim that olfactory is one of the most vivid links to past moments, and faint traces of a smell can suddenly present long-buried memories of timmes and places long past. A |
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13 Aug 06 - 02:50 AM (#1808564) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: mrdux "But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, still, alone, more fragile, but with more vitality, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us, waiting and hoping for their moment, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unfaltering, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection." – Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past, vol. I: Swann's Way (1913) "Smell is the most powerful trigger to the memory there is. A certain flower or a whiff of smoke can bring up experiences long forgotten. Books smell. . . musty and rich. The knowledge gained from a computer is. . . it has no texture, no context. It's there and then it's gone. If it's to last, then the getting of knowledge should be tangible. It should be, um. . . smelly." – "Rupert Giles" from Buffy the Vampire Slayer (28 April, 1997) michael |
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13 Aug 06 - 04:08 AM (#1808582) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Rasener DtG Can't you ask the owners of the house to move you out of the garden and into the house. :-) Get well sooon. I am sure some of you blokes wiil associate with this. That beautiful aroma of your favourite perfume. There is one perfume which I can't remember the name of now, but if I get a whiff of it, it always reminds me of the lovely shags with one of my favourite ex girl friends of many years past. Now why would it do that, when I can't even remeber her name anymore :-) |
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13 Aug 06 - 08:27 AM (#1808670) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: freda underhill Deja vu is a very sensory thing - and is often associated with a sensation of a smell or colour. i've heard that memory and smell are somehow connected, in the brain. |
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13 Aug 06 - 08:40 AM (#1808683) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Dave the Gnome It's not quite what I had in mind but certainly gives us some interesting food for thought. No, my experience was a lot simpler realy. Perhaps I didn't explain it too well. Because I cannot smell too well (OK - get the jokes out of the way!) I forget what things smell like. Just like if you don't hear a tune very often and then hear a snippet it drives you mad trying to remember what it is. Well, the smell last night was like that. I got a 'snippet' of this particular smell which was familiar but much to far back in the archives to recognise as a common one. Because it was only a fragment of the smell I could not ask anyone else what it was - It was gone as soon as it came. It is probably the first time I have 'remembered' a smell in this way. That is what was odd and a very new experience! Cheers DtG |
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13 Aug 06 - 09:43 AM (#1808719) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Stu A smemory? |
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13 Aug 06 - 11:53 AM (#1808772) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Alba stank for the smemory?.. grin |
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13 Aug 06 - 01:17 PM (#1808845) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Dave (the ancient mariner) Fuel oil can trigger bad memories for me. It reminds me that dead bodies smell the same black, white, yellow, Christian, Jew, Muslim etc. |
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13 Aug 06 - 02:16 PM (#1808892) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Kaleea smellmory? |
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13 Aug 06 - 02:28 PM (#1808906) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Slag A long lasting stench? |
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13 Aug 06 - 04:29 PM (#1808985) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Ebbie Alba, I'm with you on that. I go farther too- I hesitate to admit that I 'smell' campfires, gasoline, flowers, on television. And a number of times I have smelt activity at the other end of the line through a telephone... My daughter has done the same. |
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13 Aug 06 - 04:41 PM (#1808999) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Divis Sweeney Lifebuoy soap. My mum used this Carbolic Soap when she scrubbed a half moon at the front doorstep. She washed the collars of shirts with it. It was used for everything around the home, and when I was washing that night to go out I stood and picked the stones out of it ! Always had a clean fresh smell. When I smell it today reminds me of the old days. I still keep a bar of it in my bathroom. |
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13 Aug 06 - 04:48 PM (#1809005) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Peace Divis: It was Sunlight soap for me. Every now and then after I'd played in th coal bin for a few hours, my grandmother would decide my ears needed scrubbing. Why my ears always got it is beyond me, but they did. Honest, she'd be in there with the face cloth and knuckles and she'd remove a layer of skin. And of course the dirt would go. I had the shiniest ears in Montreal. |
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13 Aug 06 - 05:05 PM (#1809019) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Ebbie Oh- and Pepsodent toothpaste! By chance I bought Pepsodent and in using it suddenly identified the product we used when I was a kid. It was toothpowder in those days but the smell and taste were the same. |
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13 Aug 06 - 05:15 PM (#1809028) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Micca Could the word be "Nosetalgia"? |
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13 Aug 06 - 05:31 PM (#1809040) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Mr Red I stink therefore I ham. As you get older Nosetalgia is not what is used to be. So memories of school are knowstalgia then? |
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13 Aug 06 - 06:00 PM (#1809058) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Alba "Nosetalgia" *giggle* Nosetalgia should have been a name in the TV programme 'Up Pompeii' Micca...*grin* "Pleasure is the flower that passes, remembrance, the lasting perfume" ~~Jean de Boufflers Jude |
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13 Aug 06 - 06:07 PM (#1809068) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Severn What would be the opposite of "Arrividerci Aroma"? A "Re-Scent Au Courant"-ce The Chosen Phew? Deja Phew? A Stench supporter? Nose-Fare-Of 2-A Sequel? (What the aforementioned Buffy responds to) In-Stinked-Of Behavior? "You Reek-a! I've-a found it again!"? An 0l'-Factory Rebait? |
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13 Aug 06 - 06:14 PM (#1809074) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Peace What would be the opposite of "Arrividerci Aroma"? Buongiorno fettore? |
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13 Aug 06 - 06:16 PM (#1809075) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Severn Refresh? (meant as another suggestion, actually) |
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13 Aug 06 - 07:08 PM (#1809112) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Don Firth A friend of mine said that the aroma, and the taste, of his grandmother's pancakes had him completely mystified. He knew that, grandmother or not, she used a commercial pancake mix and that she didn't do anything special with it. Nevertheless, neither he nor anybody else seemed to be able to duplicate the smell and the taste. Weird! Then one morning he was riding up in an elevator in a hotel with a couple of other people, an elderly gentleman and a waiterr from the hotel's room service with a cart full of covered dishes. From the syrup bottle and other things on the cart, he could tell that there was a plate of pancakes there—and they smelled just like his grandmothers! He glanced at the older gentleman and noticed that protruding from the breast pocket of his suit jacket were a couple of White Owl brand cigars. Click! His grandfather had smoked White Owl cigars! So it wasn't just the pancakes, or the cigars, it was the combination of smells. Tricky! Don Firth |
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13 Aug 06 - 11:04 PM (#1809232) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Slag That's one smell of a memory you have. If you replace the word "memory" and memory related words with "smell" in some titles you get some interesting titles like: " Smell Me to God" "Smells are Made of This" or the line out of "Lonely Stree" ".. where old hotels and smells meet..." (kinda makes sense). " I Re-smell You." with the line "...tell them I re-smell you." any others? |
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14 Aug 06 - 04:11 AM (#1809328) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Paul Burke The smell of damp and pipe tobacco takes me straight to my grandparents' house. Tarry coal burning, I'm in the Isle of Man, it's hot, it's 1962. Boiled eggs are my 3rd birthday, sunshine, salad with boiled ham in the bay window, Mum in a white print dress. |
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14 Aug 06 - 02:07 PM (#1809627) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy reminiscent? |
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14 Aug 06 - 02:19 PM (#1809644) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: GUEST,Bill Kennedy then there's 'Feeling Scentimental over you...' |
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14 Aug 06 - 02:33 PM (#1809657) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Liz the Squeak And it's three score and ten Boys and men were lost from Grimsby town From Yarmouth down to Scarboro Many hundreds more were drowned Our herring craft, our trawlers Our fishing smacks, as well They long defied that bitter night And battled with the smell. Just to drag it kicking and screaming back to music.... LTS |
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14 Aug 06 - 02:42 PM (#1809661) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: GUEST,LilyFestre According to a class I took over the weekend, aromatherapy deals with smells/scents that are related to medicinal purposes. Smells/scents that bring back memories are referred to aromacology. I'm not sure of the spelling, but I think I'm close! Michelle |
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14 Aug 06 - 05:36 PM (#1809828) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Liz the Squeak Pink carbolic soap and fresh cow dung... takes me right back to my grandfather's farm kitchen. Suddenly I'm 5 again, and helping with the milking. The most stressful thing is 'will the sun shine again tomorrow' and the most important thing is 'when is supper ready?'... now THAT is therapy. LTS |
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14 Aug 06 - 07:22 PM (#1809910) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: catspaw49 Geeziz Liz....Did the cows crap in the kitchen or what? Spaw |
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15 Aug 06 - 07:39 AM (#1810241) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Mr Red The smell of a mine? (no not a smell of mine) descent? or is that the smell you get when the parachute fails to open? Oh no! that is indescent |
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15 Aug 06 - 07:44 AM (#1810249) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Paul Burke Great mines stink alike. |
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15 Aug 06 - 07:48 AM (#1810253) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: John MacKenzie A SCENTimental memory? G. |
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15 Aug 06 - 09:16 AM (#1810296) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: Alba giggle Good to see you Giok:) |
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16 Aug 06 - 05:46 AM (#1810982) Subject: RE: BS: What do you call the memory of a smell? From: kendall I stopped smoking 10 years ago, but I still smell tobacco smoke even when I'm alone. The aroma of new mown hay takes me back to my boyhood. |