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Vintage Shaver
Seattle, WA
https://slate.com/culture/2020/07/smells...farts.html

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Member
Las Vegas, NV, USA
Difficult to even imagine some of the descriptions in that article… Smile
Whenever I go to shave, I assume there’s someone else on the planet shaving, so I say “I’m gonna go shave, too.”
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Posting Freak
Thanks for this amusing and slightly repulsive diversion churchilllafemme  it makes one grateful that we live today and not back when life was “solitary, nasty brutish and short” and apparently really smelly too. 

I’m reminded of an article I read a few years ago about the use of simulators for training combat troops. One of the challenges discussed was how to simulate the smell of combat which can be disturbing if troops are unprepared for it.

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Posting Freak
Canada
Wow! Interesting.
Celestino
Love, Laughter & Shaving  Heart
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Member
Idaho Falls, Idaho
Interesting read
#6
Smells trigger memories quicker than damn near anything, good & bad.

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#7

Geezer
New Brunswick, Canada
Here ya go.

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17th Century Plague Doctor mask and outfit. 
The nose was "typically stuffed with herbs, straw, and spices" to ward against the "miasma" that was believed to carry the plague.

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"So I'm sorry that you're psychotic but just make an effort. Pull yourself together and take a deep breath." - Hannah Pitt (Meryl Streep), in "Angels in America"
#8

Geezer
New Brunswick, Canada
(07-23-2020, 12:29 AM)BPman Wrote: Smells trigger memories quicker than damn near anything, good & bad.
Fer sure.
The scent of chamomile immediately takes me back to playing in my grandfather's hay barn with my cousins.

I also have a memory of the scent and taste of pizza from a restaurant on St-Viateur Street in Montréal that I have not smelled since 1960 or so. It was one of those mom & pop places where they had a guy tossing the dough in the front window. I mentioned it to my sister and she said "yeah, I know what you mean, it tasted different". Sadly, the restaurant is long gone and there is nothing like that pizza now. I know I would recognize it immediately if I ever smelled it again.

Freshly-cut lumber reminds me of when my folks built our house when I was around 7 or 8.

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"So I'm sorry that you're psychotic but just make an effort. Pull yourself together and take a deep breath." - Hannah Pitt (Meryl Streep), in "Angels in America"


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