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[gidgetgh]

Sea Breeze Astringent is one of those scents for me. It reminds me of Summer's spent at the family cottage in PA.

 I keep a bottle on hand and while I've got really dry skin and don't need Sea Breeze sometimes I'll use it or just open the bottle and smell because of the memories it brings. 

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@gidgetgh wrote:

Sea Breeze Astringent is one of those scents for me. It reminds me of Summer's spent at the family cottage in PA.

 I keep a bottle on hand and while I've got really dry skin and don't need Sea Breeze sometimes I'll use it or just open the bottle and smell because of the memories it brings.

I like to use Sea Breeze to take the itch out of  mosquito bites.

[this is my nic]

My Mom wore Chanel #5 which she usually received as a Christmas gift from my Dad.  When I was a teenager, she'd allow me to use it for special occasions.   A couple of years ago, I was wandering through an Ulta store's fragrance area and stopped to snif Chanel #5.   Wow!  I was back in time! 

Funny, now I wouldn't use it because it's very potent, but I sure enjoyed it because of the connection with my mother. 

The sense of smell is the most evocative of all the senses. It really does transport us back in time. 

[just bee]

I'm in Albuquerque and I cherish the scent of the high desert after it rains.  It's a familiar scent -- one that transports me to Prescott, Arizona, 1970.  A summer day, after a storm, and I'm pedaling my blue Huffy.

Is it the scent of the wet creosote bush?  Perhaps.  But whatever it is, it's intoxicating.

[Ms X]

I remember from a course on brain physiology that the sense of smell is located in the most primitive part of the brain and that scent can bring back powerful memories.  I guess it's part of the survival mechanism so that animals don't eat the wrong thing. 

[Mominohio]

OP, hope all goes well with your husband's surgery. 

And yes indeed, they do say the sense of smell is the strongest of all our senses for evoking memories.

As far a soap goes, it is Dove original white bar soap (that we still use to this day) that takes me back.

 When I was growing up at home, we used Dial or Zest. But my grandparents used Dove. By the time I was old enough to remember much about them, they had retired to Florida, and we would go down to visit them each year. The minute you walked through their back door (which was opposite their bathroom) the scent hit you. It is a pleasant smell to me, and since we have it in our shower constantly, I don't think about it much, but every once in awhile, I get a whiff of it, and I'm transported back to the late 1960's and early 1970's, and I'm at my grandparents house. 

[Nancy Drew]

Gardenias take me back to my Grandma every time. She wore a very strong perfume that was garneia scented.

[house_cat]

My mom has dementia and she's a handful to deal with every day. Some days she really wears me out. Considering all that she's forgotten the last few years, she still insists on wearing Elizabeth Taylor's White Diamonds every day. I know when she passes that scent will be very meaningful to me.

[Mmsfoxxie]

Yes, Zest soap does have a distinctive scent.  I was visiting someone's home a while back and there was a bar in their bathroom.  Right away, memories came back from my childhood that made me sad (for a moment).  I never buy that brand for that reason.  It leaves soap scum anyway.

[sharlee]

Scent is certainly evocative.  I got a whiff of someone wearing Elizabeth Arden's Blue Grass fragrance the other day, and instantly felt seventeen again!

Ditto for Heaven Scent.  I don't encounter these two fragrances very often these days, so it's all the more poignant when I do.

OP, hope your husband's surgery goes well.