Common Scents

It's rained again this morning, and the air is redolent with the somewhat annoying scent of wet dog. The wet-dog smell is one of the three or four primary odours which raises my hackles. The sense of smell is like that; associations bond intimately from smell to brain to memory, and you recall much more than you would through text or cerebration alone.

I remember people by scent sometimes. To this day, specific perfumes or fragrances will trigger a cascade of images about a particular person and what that person meant (or means) to me. It happens without warning, much of the time. The fragrance need not be particularly rare; all it has to do is be there.