> Smells are such a powerful memory trigger, that good can smell bad when associated with a bad memory, and vice versa.
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> My father smoked when I was growing up, though he's stopped now. He didn't chain smoke, he maybe had four or five a day (the same amount I smoked before I quit, oddly enough.) Anyway, I associate a faint smell of cigarette smoke on clothing with being safe and all the other good things about fathers. What's weird is that I am often attracted to men if they smell faintly of cigarettes. Freud would love that.
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> I also like skunk smell, unless it's very powerful. It has a nice foresty smell.
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> The smell of old cars, like the VW bug that served as our family car back in the lean years.
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> Also, the way people smell when they've been out walking in windy weather.
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> --Jez"smells like clothing detergent and burnt sugar right now"zika

Yeah, the smell when someone *first* lights up a cigarette, I like, but after that... EW EW EW, especially when I come home from my parents' house with what were supposed to have been newly laundered clothes and instead wind up with "clean" clothes with a strong, stale smoke odor.

Also, the smell when you *first* open up a new bag of potato chips can't be beat.