Gratefulness for Smells
Smells are great memory teasers. Allow yourself the pleasure of remembering a favorite smell, and compare it with the favorites of others.

Welcome to the "Gratefulness for Smells" message board!
- Daniel Uvanovic, Webmaster   7 Mar 2003

My sense of smell went awol about three months ago and with it the sense of taste.I'm being treated professionaly but except for the occasional return of both for a brief period of time (15 mins) there has been no progress toward a full recovery,and likely there never will be.But I still prepare nutritious meals for myself and enjoy,gratefully,the experience of eating,relying mostly onmemory.
- B.R., Montreal   7 Mar 2003

Whenever I smell the perfume Tea Rose, it reminds me of being a teenager, trying new things and figuring out who I am. When I walk by someone who's wearing Tea Rose, it always makes me wonder what that person is like...
- Julie, Orlando   8 Mar 2003

I was grateful to inhale the scents of cleaners as I scrubbed the bathroom this morning. How glorious, the clean pure ready shelves, clutter and "stuff" removed and ready for my family to use. BLESSINGS!
- Julie Jordan Scott, Bakersfield, CA USA   8 Mar 2003

Scents for me create melodies with all the other senses. This morning and for the next couple of weeks, the sweet, sultry sent of new orange blossoms blankets my corner of the world, as if I had stepped into a scentscape instead of landscape. It can be, when the air is heavy with rain, a scent so strong and lingering that if feels as if you could touch it. The buzzing of bees and wasps around the trees make the scent almost a sound. The white brillianceof buds and flowers with orange stamens festoon the trees like lariats and seeing them becomes part of the scent experience. Orange blossoms become visible grace and love in March. And for all of this, I am grateful.
- Zen, USA   9 Mar 2003

I love the scent of vanilla body lotion. It must remind me, on some level, of the vanilla used in baking cookies and all the good memories associated with those times.
- Beth, USA   9 Mar 2003

I also love the smells, (smell is a stronger word here), of wet furry creatures in the morning dew or after a rain. The rising musky warmth of aliveness, of dogs, cats, otters, squirrels, etc. can link us to our own aliveness, sense of vitality and well being and gratefulness just to be a part of this wonderful, amazing universe.
- Zen, Florida USA   15 Mar 2003

From the time I was young, I remember and enjoy the smell of freshly cut grass. My friends and I enjoyed playing and picnicing on the grass. What a wonderful smell!
- EZ, Florida, USA   16 Mar 2003

Smells I remember from my childhood in Tucson, AZ are: the fragrance of cantalopes on the vine warming in the sun on the ramada outside my bedroom; mesquite beans after a rain and the desert after a thunderstorm; Yardley's English Lavender, a gift for my tenth birthday from a friend of my parents in London; the smell of horse sweat & leather after a good ride; the cushion of pine needles from the woods near our summer home. Mil gracias.
- hs, Charlotte, NC, USA   16 Mar 2003

I relish the smell of my gandpas woodshed. Absolute Cedar. I also remember my Grandmas perfume Moment Supreme. And the smell of her gloves and scarves drawer. Her cupboards, Im not sure what that smell was. Pine, maybe mildew.
- Elisabeth, Utah   24 Mar 2003

I remember the delicious smell of fried chicken my mom would make. It meant a delicious, peaceful dinner for us all. How anxious we were to be together for dinner that night.
- GO, Bernardsville, NJ   27 Mar 2003

The smell of life is the unique smell of the top of a baby's head. This action is one of many that gives our attention, love and care to a child - the best investment we can make in the human race.
- Andy Przekop, Levering, MI   28 Mar 2003