Recently my nose was almost assaulted by the smell of honeysuckle while on a morning walk and I instantly thought of my mother and a specific memory came to mind. I was in the sixth grade and Avon<\/a> had come out with a perfume compact. The perfume was sort of a cream gel that you would swipe your finger over and rub on your pressure points (neck, inside wrist, etc.). I got one and the scent was, you guessed it, honeysuckle. Unfortunately, I couldn’t wear it much because it made my mother sneeze like crazy every time she smelled it. Now every time I smell honeysuckle I think of my mother.<\/p>\n

This made me think about the connection between smells and memories. I wonder what other specific memories I have that are triggered by smells? It will be interesting to find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Can you find my dog? Recently my nose was almost assaulted by the smell of honeysuckle while on a morning walk and I instantly thought of my mother and a specific memory came to mind. I was in the sixth grade and Avon had come out with a perfume compact. The perfume was sort of …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7zbKo-I9","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2737\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sheilascribbles.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}