Back when perfume products became NECESSITIES

https://slate.com/culture/2020/07/smells...farts.html

Difficult to even imagine some of the descriptions in that article…

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.

Wow! Interesting.

Interesting read

Smells trigger memories quicker than damn near anything, good & bad.

Here ya go.



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.

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.