okay,, we all know how different homes and persons each have their own scent, right?

so my question is....have you ever stayed with someone so long and when you left and got things out of storage smelled the items around you and felt a renewed sense of being "home"



or have you ever been in a relationship with some one, and were separated for a while and kept..without washing a shirt or other item of clothing so you could remember their smell?

I can't say I've ever gone through that but I do enjoy sniffing things

Since smell is a sense and it is linked to our instincts and memories. You walk into a house with that quaint "Trailer Trash" smell to it and you know you may not want to have any business with that person. How about those loons that have thirty cats and smell like cat piss?

Sometimes I do pick something up that has a smell that triggers a memory. I don't think I would go as far as keeping an item for a person's scent? I am not a blood hound.

Yep, been there..

No,,, I can't say that I have,,,I do understand the attachment tho!!!!

Not on purpose, but I have picked up a jacket or sweater that still had the scent of perfume and flashed back to when things were good.

I love the fresh cleant scent of a woman just showered. Heck I love the scent of a woman has a little persperation. Breath deep and man-up

the shirt thing may be a phenomenon particular to military wives....maybe


for all the military spouses I have come across, those that kept that one shirt during deployments..were faithful


an observation that I believe needs more evaluation

Stayed with my grandma for a couple years had moth balls in the laundry room...yea moth balls like the smell

Love, it seems, is all about scents and scentability

by Kristen Cole

Love is in the air, even if it's not Valentine's Day. Just ask Brown students.

Smell plays an important role in finding a mate, particularly for women, according to Rachel Herz, a visiting assistant professor of psychology who studies olfactory cognition and emotion.

Herz recently surveyed nearly 200 students about the importance of various physical traits in selecting a lover. Smell was more important for women than men, and looks were more important for men than women, according to her findings.

In fact, women considered a man’s smell to be more important than any other physical factor when selecting a lover. The influence of smell also outranked all social factors, except pleasantness, and was valued more highly than money or ambition, she found.

And, when study participants were asked to choose one physical trait in a lover that could be "better than average," women chose smell, while men chose looks. For men, the only factor to outrank good looks was the social factor, pleasantness.

The findings are consistent with previous research indicating that body odor is particularly critical for women in selecting mates because it is a signal of immunological health, said Herz.

A major cluster of genes determines a human’s immune system. It is thought that women choose mates who are more different than similar to themselves so that offspring will receive a full range of genes and a strong immune system.

Although questions still remain about body odor’s involvement in attraction, one thing is certain: Love smells different to everyone because "no one else smells exactly the same as you," said Herz

buck herz

nope. never intentionally kept something or not washed something of someone elses.

i do however have moments of flashback every time i smell cooking cuban food of my sister's abuela angela. she was great grandma and her house always smelled like platano malduro.

<---almost no sense of smell.

Stuff just doesn't matter...except taste.

I taste women.

Each one has her special taste, and it changes in the course of days, and even within hours. And the taste of her neck is different than the taste of her shoulder or lower back or calves, etc.

Women taste yummy.

wow, but your sense of smell and sense of taste are intricately tied to one another....

they were, until I was 16...massive trauma blow severed/cut/broke sense of smell & taste. Years later, the body/brain adapted to compensate. At first, I had astounding eyesight and hearing. As that normalized, the sense of taste returned somewhat--differently--without smell. So, I found that actually taste without the distraction of smell...but nothing tastes like normal. I do not recall the taste of real strawberries, etc. It's all different, for me.

thats really interesting
you rock..

All I know is-theremones are mui importante!
pAAAAAAce!
-Jess

It does play a very important role in attraction.

Also in remembering. I've had that once, remembering her smell from her clothes or if she was just gone a while, from the her scent on the bed, in the sheets. It always created and deep urge and longing.

Don't have that problem anymore though. The only scent I miss now is the scent before rain and oh how I love it so.

I miss that smell too..the smell before rain

Scent is important. Always a turn off when someone wears my Dad's cologne; immediately demoted to the friend zone.

The smell of my late husband's things or my sons baby clothes can still bring me to tears.