Memory Scents

It's funny how certain scents remain with you. Sometimes for a lifetime. I have many memory scents. When I use one of my favorite body sprays, Pomegranate Apple, it takes me back to the first time I smelled it. I was at our favorite Chinese restaurant waiting to pick up our food. For some reason I was always selected to go pick it up. It was early summer time. A lady came in wearing the scent and it smelled so good on her I had to ask her what it was. She told me and said she got it at CVS. So of course on the way home I had to make one last stop to buy some. Now every time I wear it, I go back to that day when he was alive & waiting for me to return home with our dinner. The scent of pines always take me back to my childhood. In May we always went to the U.P. to visit my grandparents. We had wood swings tied with rope to a very tall beautiful pine tree. When I smell pine, I feel like I am under that tree, swinging, with not a care in the world. The smell of a gas powered small engine running, such as my rototiller, makes me think of snowmobiling as a kid. My Dad & his brothers were snowmobile men. We rode in the winter a lot, me hanging on tight to my Dad, the smell from the engine drifting back to me. The scent of burning metal makes me think of the many times I would catch Ted under a car torching off bolts & things, sparks flying everywhere and him with no goggles or safety protection at all. I would watch him doing what he loved & tell him he was going to get hurt. His response was to turn his torch up higher. I think my absolute favorite memory scent is coconut shampoo. Every single time I use it, I drift back to my little trailer I had. I loved that trailer. It was old, falling apart and had many weak spots on the floor through out. But it was mine. Money borrowed and paid back, it was my very first home. I raised my older son there, just him and I for five years. It had an enclosed porch that I loved to sit on and watch the sunsets in the field behind us. Many happy memories from that time. Rough, lonely, struggling years, but still happy. That was when I first discovered the coconut shampoo because it was cheap. I'm glad I have memory scents. Sometimes when we just need a little break from the day to day struggles, it's nice to go back in time and smell the .......