Rachel Carson
If at this moment you feel a coffee aroma what kind of memories or enticing events are triggered on you?
You can be transported to distant places or memories that perhaps were extremely hidden.
Sweet white wine aromas evoke in me immediately wine tastings I’ve done, celebrations of the end of the year and other type lovely sweet memories.
(I must put this photo of beef with olives and fennel cooked recently..mmmm)
The sense of smell is a powerful memory enhancer, incomparably superior to the sense of sight and hearing.
The memories of the scents and their associate elements have a permanency disproportionate in the memory, longer than images or sounds.
Both the vision and sound have similar forgotten-curves, past some days it isn’t easy to recognize something seen or listened.
With the smell is a totally different- scents or fragrances can be kept as precious memories for long time, even years.
The most obvious reason is that smell is closely linked with emotions. Not so much with facts or events, but with many emotions.
- Can you imagine being able to remember things from childhood perhaps school memories or other type of events that were sweet, only for the smell?
It’s very difficult that you can conjure up the smells, aromas and to reproduce them in the human memory – a person needs to perceive the aroma to recall.
The sense of taste is closely linked to smell, this is the reason when the smell sense is not very well, you can notice that the food has no taste. Aromatic molecules don’t get to your nose and you end saying ..this food needs more seasoning!
- Can you forget the perfume of the person you fell in love used, the first time you meet her/him?
The woman/man fragrance is a very strong remembrance and this very well kept in the memory!
- The special meal that your grandmother always cooked and when you appreciate the aroma in the environment – immediately you go back to the love she gave you!
When someone cooks you dream to give each of your guests an aroma indelible and forever or at least, to evoke the fragrance-memory they’ve till the emotional point of being hypnotized!
Foodies are masters with olfactory memory and visual memory- trying often to get new dimensions, unexplored frontiers to satisfy our appetite with a variety of surreal sensations.
To reinforce all your senses with special scents and perfumes I have selected some aromatic recipes for your enjoyment:
Herb-Encrusted Grilled Salmon Recipe by Kalyn
Striving to be the Biscuits of Today? By Chrystal and Amir
Aromatic Giouvetsi (γιουβέτσι με αρωματικά) by Peter
Aromatic: Sun Dried Tomato and Purple Basil Pesto by Meeta
Homemade Garam Masala Recipe by Mansi
Which are your aroma-triggers and what types of memories bring to you?
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@Elra Joy you like it! I’m with you full colors too. I’m pretty sure that should be a Balinese restaurant in the U.S, only patience in the search. Btw I’ve done the tagged in my new post
I totally agree. Different aromas, food or otherwise are big memory triggers for me. Sometimes, I will cook certain dishes, just to remember pleasant times from my past!
@StickyGooeyCreamyChewy
Ohh to cook specific dishes to remember, a nice way to triggers memories of the past!
About the 70 food bloggers roundup, you totally deserve to be included …thanks for coming by Susan
The frying onions is a important smell for me. It always brings up memories of my mother and grandmother cooking.
@Maggie
Ohh I’ve the same about this aroma and if it has garlic is splendid
This post brings back my memories of my sister. I really like her chicken curry dish, I’m getting the smell now….