What scent/smell immediately transports you to a specific time + place (good or bad)? Fun Fact: This is called the Proust Phenomenon

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There is a specific way cars from this era smell when the... more
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I love this scent!
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My neighbor grew them in his garden and their smell trans... more
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Takes me back to early pandemic era but in a fun way
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The smell of vinyl, wood, canvas, sweat, and hairspray - ... more
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Freshman year of high school, spring 2008.
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My sweaty skin plus this fragrance and Barcelona in the s... more
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My Husband’s perfume on our wedding day: notes of vanilla... more
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Humid air, late August, it’s move-in weekend of 2014. I j... more
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We lived in SF between 2008-2013. One of the last things ... more
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When I was little I would often spend the weekend with my... more
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This was my perfume for so much of junior high school and... more
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Reminds me of: every girl in middle school in a nauseatin... more
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Holy grail item for the bulk of my existence, sadly releg... more
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Honeysuckles bring me back to summers at my grandparents ... more
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I know it’s not “great” pizza, but when I was growing up ... more
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all any of us used for 9 consecutive years at summer camp... more
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My signature citrus-y scent for years and years, until I ... more
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Spent such a lovely weekend here (on the Red Sea) and all... more
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There is this sort of sunscreen/salt water/slightly damp ... more
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Evan McAvenia
abuelita core
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The ET ride in Universal Studios has such a specific smel... more
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This is going to be a suspiciously specific memory, but t... more
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It's 2003 and I'm living in a house with with three roomm... more