I've held onto a bottle of my mom's perfume since I was 14.. the same bottle she used 14 years ago.. half my life I've lived with the last drops of her perfume, and every time I smell it I Instantly get overtaken by intense emotions
I am the same way about my Mom's fragrance: Oscar de la Renta. This is Mom and no matter if one million women have worn it through the years, it is her.
Scent. So powerful, for better or for worse. I have a friend who’ll buy a new fragrance whenever they go on a vacation or prior to some special occasion so as whenever they are feeling bluesy they’ll wear that scent and it’ll subliminally embrace that that positive experience. It sounds curious, but it actually works
Thank you for this fantastic ted talk. I myself have been an advocate for the use of natural fragrances for years. the smells we know before we are born. Through lectures for dementia I give advice for more general well-being through smell. A wonderful thing that nature has given us.
I have been 26 days now without smoking cigarettes and have bought many fragrances in order to treat myself and indulge in all the smells especially gourmand sweet and tasty smells. This has comforted and delighted me through the process of quitting smoking.
Deep Dish, well done. Keep up the good work. Not an ex smoker, but recently gone down the rabbit hole of perfume buying after being someone who only owned 1 or 2 fragrances at a time. Now have over 20 bottles, plus numerous samples and mini sets😬 What are you buying for yourself and what is your current favourite? 😊🇦🇺
I had covid and lost my sense of smell. Was so happy. Because I could smell my little siblings, even if they didn't smell that bad, I'd get disgusted but when I couldn't, I hugged them as much as I could. I could live with the dogs without crying about their smell as well. I dreaded the day I was gonna get better. :') Smell is really important and gives me so much emotion but if it's not a good smell, well, no oof
I guess Google knew to recommend this to me due to my experience of suffering anosmia. I find a fulfilling life despite having a nearly non-existent sense of smell, but there are some things that are simply not the same. I truly miss walking through a deep, damp forest and smelling the richness of the wet earth.
When she said she was a collector of "scent memories", I thought she did what I do when my allergies are at bay and I can truly smell things. I run around sniffing or inhaling as many things as I can so I can store the memory away. My boyfriend, the cat, a fresh jar of ginger. Whatever I can get in front of my face. Sometimes my allergies are very bad and I cook by sight and by memory. My daughter was in a generous mood one day and she compared me to Beethoven. Not by a long shot, but everyone enjoys my cooking so maybe a memory of scent rather than a scent memory is really a thing.
Great Tedtalk ~ In my first aid class we talk about the region of the brain where the olfactory system is housed and how smell is never analytical but emotional. I'll have students write about a childhood memory of smell and it is always fascinating to read the essays. Rarely have they ever thought about the emotional attachment to that smell or the bad memory affiliated with the smell. The olfactory system is one of the most primitive systems humans have and is fascinating. Thanks Holladay for sharing your thoughts and research!
I was born without a sense of smell, a condition called congenital anosmia. Since smell accounts for 80-90% of taste, I only experience about 10-20% of what others taste. Technically, out of the five senses, I only have about 3.1-3.2 functioning fully. Considering our entire lives are experienced through these five senses, missing one-and having another severely diminished-is more life-altering than most people realize. I’m essentially experiencing about 62-64% of life’s sensory richness. The impact of missing a sense goes deeper than people think. For example, someone who’s blind doesn’t see what they’re missing. A deaf person might see a drum making sound but can’t hear it. My experience is somewhat similar-I can see a candle burning or food cooking, but I can’t smell anything. It’s like an invisible, magical layer of the world that others have access to, and I don’t. To me, smell is like a superpower. People who can smell essentially have an ability that lets them “see” through walls or know things without looking. Imagine walking into someone’s home and instantly knowing they’re baking cinnamon rolls, without being told or seeing the oven. That’s pure magic to me. Everyone who can smell is incredibly lucky to have this gift. Because I’ve never had a sense of smell, I don’t even know what I’m missing. It’s not like losing a sense you once had-it’s a mystery I can’t comprehend. I feel like I only get to enjoy a fraction of life’s sensory richness. What makes it even harder is that no one knows unless I tell them. A blind person’s condition is visible, and they often receive understanding and assistance. But for me, there’s no visible sign of my anosmia, no extra help, no accommodations. It’s also dangerous at times. I can’t detect gas leaks, smoke from a fire, spoiled food, or toxins. I can’t even tell if I need a shower without checking other signs, like feedback from someone else! There are funny moments too. Once, I was shopping for deodorant and had no idea which one to choose. I had to ask a random lady in the aisle if the one I picked smelled good and wasn’t too feminine. We laughed, but it reminded me of how differently I navigate everyday situations. I have countless stories like that-some funny, some challenging, and some deeply reflective. Missing this sense changes so much more than people realize, and it’s shaped how I experience the world in ways I’m still discovering.
I still remember the smell of my favorite cat and yes every individual smells different. whenever I remember her I think of the touch of her fur and her smell.
Personally, I think we should be more responsible and respectful of people's sense of smell since it is so heavily attached to memory. As we know science, we should respect them and educate them. It is interesting to me that there are so many disclaimers at the end of new drug advertisements yet not with scent. Scent affects our emotions deeply. It affects purchase decisions. I did a speaking engagement at P&G almost 10 years ago about this subject: How Scent Affects Purchase Decisions. It does. Making the customer aware will not greatly negatively affect anything. That is my personal belief. I believe if you are more inclusive with them and share what you know, it only builds trust and community. Let them decide if they want to purchase or not.
I made smell a reality (even tough I already was very interested on perfumes, speacially the classic Le Male), when I went on my second trip to the United States, and I smelled my Gillete gel deodorant...
Then there are also chemo signals which are for a lot of negative emotions but also like testosterone, aggression, dominance etc and fertility. Positive emotions oddly not so much. And the way they show up is they qualitatively provide information in the form of sensations emotions etc, they essentially prime the brain 🧠 in a state that then gets confirmed by visual or auditory stimuli, but none the less you where primed.
I wonder how the smell of clean affects authoritarian personalities. As understanding how disgust sensitivity was connected to morality and how it’s responsible for most of our insane social ills. Plus people in disgust can’t think straight at all, they are actually hijacked, the more I saw how this affected people it was nuts. We could also experiement how smell of clean affects those high in orderliness vs openess to experience.
like, I'm very good with memory and with all these things you know, I don't know how it took me so long to research the sense of smell, I've always related various smells to several things, there are some that remind me of someone or somewhere or food, but speaking of environments and people, I've always had it, and like, I can detect it very well and people even think it's weird LOL Once, for example, I was driving out going to school with my father and I said because I say out of nowhere, I said "what a smell of the Middle Ages" like I've never been there lol then she said "gods worth it, crazy, what touches are these bia that you have my good lol" then you know, it was probably somewhere I Smelling like that guys who help kids to go to the jump , you know those for birthday, and I really talk to the person I'm next to, like I feel out of nowhere so I tell my friend. When I go to the movies there's always someone with a stronger perfume, so whenever I smell that, I relate to the character in the movie, or something. I always say that smells disperse something in us and they also disperse memories or even strange feelings. I smell a perfume and I already remember such a thing or person, and there are some that bring me strange feelings, and the odor is important yes, incredible as it may seem, but at least for me I often can't stay in the place where I'm smelling that reminds me of something bad. I smell it and remember a person and it brings me something kind of bad I smell a person I don’t even like him anymore and when I smell it brings me something weird and bad, my heart starts to burn idk Anyway, i love this!! I finally researched
I love new car smell, Brand new product first unboxing smell, brand new paper smell, I die for red cedar oak wood smell, love the first time smell of new perfume. And you know we all love that summertime right before right after rainfall sweet ozone smell. love the smell of puppy and kitten. And i love the smell of high octane gasoline, and the unique smell of racing fuel and nitros. (sure an aquired taste, but it all smells like fun)
I have enjoyed reading your descriptions here! Personally, I love to take a brand new book and thumb the page super fast and smell that lovely brand new book smell. So delightful!
I've held onto a bottle of my mom's perfume since I was 14.. the same bottle she used 14 years ago.. half my life I've lived with the last drops of her perfume, and every time I smell it I Instantly get overtaken by intense emotions
Martin Low how beautiful xoxo
Bless
Oh honey..
Wow,i got tears in my eyes
I am the same way about my Mom's fragrance: Oscar de la Renta. This is Mom and no matter if one million women have worn it through the years, it is her.
Scent. So powerful, for better or for worse. I have a friend who’ll buy a new fragrance whenever they go on a vacation or prior to some special occasion so as whenever they are feeling bluesy they’ll wear that scent and it’ll subliminally embrace that that positive experience. It sounds curious, but it actually works
Thank you for this fantastic ted talk. I myself have been an advocate for the use of natural fragrances for years. the smells we know before we are born. Through lectures for dementia I give advice for more general well-being through smell. A wonderful thing that nature has given us.
I have been 26 days now without smoking cigarettes and have bought many fragrances in order to treat myself and indulge in all the smells especially gourmand sweet and tasty smells. This has comforted and delighted me through the process of quitting smoking.
Deep Dish, well done. Keep up the good work. Not an ex smoker, but recently gone down the rabbit hole of perfume buying after being someone who only owned 1 or 2 fragrances at a time. Now have over 20 bottles, plus numerous samples and mini sets😬 What are you buying for yourself and what is your current favourite? 😊🇦🇺
I had covid and lost my sense of smell. Was so happy. Because I could smell my little siblings, even if they didn't smell that bad, I'd get disgusted but when I couldn't, I hugged them as much as I could. I could live with the dogs without crying about their smell as well. I dreaded the day I was gonna get better. :')
Smell is really important and gives me so much emotion but if it's not a good smell, well, no oof
Sensory integration? Cuz can’t an over responsive sense be due to that at times? Not sure just going off of what I know.
I guess Google knew to recommend this to me due to my experience of suffering anosmia. I find a fulfilling life despite having a nearly non-existent sense of smell, but there are some things that are simply not the same. I truly miss walking through a deep, damp forest and smelling the richness of the wet earth.
Try some zinc supplements. Helped bring my sense of smell back
When she said she was a collector of "scent memories", I thought she did what I do when my allergies are at bay and I can truly smell things. I run around sniffing or inhaling as many things as I can so I can store the memory away. My boyfriend, the cat, a fresh jar of ginger. Whatever I can get in front of my face. Sometimes my allergies are very bad and I cook by sight and by memory. My daughter was in a generous mood one day and she compared me to Beethoven. Not by a long shot, but everyone enjoys my cooking so maybe a memory of scent rather than a scent memory is really a thing.
@@afour9618 is this something you take as a pill? I appreciate the suggestion
Smell of the soil in the rain! child memories now its all concrete.
Petrichor
So true... As concrete jungles expand, the smell of rain moistened soil is missing.
The scent after the rain is something, sad and beautiful. While winter smells like my home country tho we lived in a tropical country. 🤍
Great Tedtalk ~ In my first aid class we talk about the region of the brain where the olfactory system is housed and how smell is never analytical but emotional. I'll have students write about a childhood memory of smell and it is always fascinating to read the essays. Rarely have they ever thought about the emotional attachment to that smell or the bad memory affiliated with the smell. The olfactory system is one of the most primitive systems humans have and is fascinating. Thanks Holladay for sharing your thoughts and research!
April Ezell yes its amazing what memories are triggered by smell
This is why it is important to "Reset" our sense of smell daily by spending time outdoors in fresh air, free from artificial smells.
@@OphiuchiChannel this is a myth.
@@travisheyoka6333 thanks for correcting me I just checked out and youre right.
@@OphiuchiChannel no worries
@@OphiuchiChannel now I wanna know what the myth was haha
@@MR__JUSTIN I dont remember lol
I was born without a sense of smell, a condition called congenital anosmia. Since smell accounts for 80-90% of taste, I only experience about 10-20% of what others taste. Technically, out of the five senses, I only have about 3.1-3.2 functioning fully. Considering our entire lives are experienced through these five senses, missing one-and having another severely diminished-is more life-altering than most people realize. I’m essentially experiencing about 62-64% of life’s sensory richness.
The impact of missing a sense goes deeper than people think. For example, someone who’s blind doesn’t see what they’re missing. A deaf person might see a drum making sound but can’t hear it. My experience is somewhat similar-I can see a candle burning or food cooking, but I can’t smell anything. It’s like an invisible, magical layer of the world that others have access to, and I don’t.
To me, smell is like a superpower. People who can smell essentially have an ability that lets them “see” through walls or know things without looking. Imagine walking into someone’s home and instantly knowing they’re baking cinnamon rolls, without being told or seeing the oven. That’s pure magic to me. Everyone who can smell is incredibly lucky to have this gift.
Because I’ve never had a sense of smell, I don’t even know what I’m missing. It’s not like losing a sense you once had-it’s a mystery I can’t comprehend. I feel like I only get to enjoy a fraction of life’s sensory richness.
What makes it even harder is that no one knows unless I tell them. A blind person’s condition is visible, and they often receive understanding and assistance. But for me, there’s no visible sign of my anosmia, no extra help, no accommodations. It’s also dangerous at times. I can’t detect gas leaks, smoke from a fire, spoiled food, or toxins. I can’t even tell if I need a shower without checking other signs, like feedback from someone else!
There are funny moments too. Once, I was shopping for deodorant and had no idea which one to choose. I had to ask a random lady in the aisle if the one I picked smelled good and wasn’t too feminine. We laughed, but it reminded me of how differently I navigate everyday situations.
I have countless stories like that-some funny, some challenging, and some deeply reflective. Missing this sense changes so much more than people realize, and it’s shaped how I experience the world in ways I’m still discovering.
I still remember the smell of my favorite cat and yes every individual smells different. whenever I remember her I think of the touch of her fur and her smell.
One really sad thing is when your clothes or something else still smell like the place you left
Like the toilet💩
@@tidaclockers6214
Yah
Gosh. What have I left out?
I have anosmia, wich basically means I have absolutely no sense of smell. I have born this way
Same here! I came here to see how smell impacts other people. Nice to see another anosmic!
Pretty much similar to the memory effects that music brings.
I wonder if smell is affected what about taste then?
The smell of a hardware store 💗💗
I love this smell! I also adore the fragrant smell of a saddle shop. So wonderful!
I am a big fan of scent and love aromatheraphy
Personally, I think we should be more responsible and respectful of people's sense of smell since it is so heavily attached to memory. As we know science, we should respect them and educate them. It is interesting to me that there are so many disclaimers at the end of new drug advertisements yet not with scent. Scent affects our emotions deeply. It affects purchase decisions. I did a speaking engagement at P&G almost 10 years ago about this subject: How Scent Affects Purchase Decisions. It does. Making the customer aware will not greatly negatively affect anything. That is my personal belief. I believe if you are more inclusive with them and share what you know, it only builds trust and community. Let them decide if they want to purchase or not.
I made smell a reality (even tough I already was very interested on perfumes, speacially the classic Le Male), when I went on my second trip to the United States, and I smelled my Gillete gel deodorant...
Truly fascinating.. Is it not? For me, it is not really about memories, certain smells trigger particular emotions - Serene ones.
This makes me sad because I can’t smell... 😥
May I ask you why?
@@OphiuchiChannel Actually yes. You can ask
@@Ulmasbeks_page ta-dum tschhhhh
I dont smell fruits nor flowers in Tide... its more artificial.
Then there are also chemo signals which are for a lot of negative emotions but also like testosterone, aggression, dominance etc and fertility. Positive emotions oddly not so much. And the way they show up is they qualitatively provide information in the form of sensations emotions etc, they essentially prime the brain 🧠 in a state that then gets confirmed by visual or auditory stimuli, but none the less you where primed.
taco bell farts bring me fond memories of a warm childhood
I wonder how the smell of clean affects authoritarian personalities. As understanding how disgust sensitivity was connected to morality and how it’s responsible for most of our insane social ills. Plus people in disgust can’t think straight at all, they are actually hijacked, the more I saw how this affected people it was nuts. We could also experiement how smell of clean affects those high in orderliness vs openess to experience.
Flowers and time travel.
like, I'm very good with memory and with all these things you know, I don't know how it took me so long to research the sense of smell, I've always related various smells to several things, there are some that remind me of someone or somewhere or food, but speaking of environments and people, I've always had it, and like, I can detect it very well and people even think it's weird LOL
Once, for example, I was driving out going to school with my father and I said because I say out of nowhere, I said "what a smell of the Middle Ages" like I've never been there lol then she said "gods worth it, crazy, what touches are these bia that you have my good lol" then you know, it was probably somewhere I Smelling like that guys who help kids to go to the jump , you know those for birthday, and I really talk to the person I'm next to, like I feel out of nowhere so I tell my friend. When I go to the movies there's always someone with a stronger perfume, so whenever I smell that, I relate to the character in the movie, or something.
I always say that smells disperse something in us and they also disperse memories or even strange feelings. I smell a perfume and I already remember such a thing or person, and there are some that bring me strange feelings, and the odor is important yes, incredible as it may seem, but at least for me I often can't stay in the place where I'm smelling that reminds me of something bad. I smell it and remember a person and it brings me something kind of bad
I smell a person I don’t even like him anymore and when I smell it brings me something weird and bad, my heart starts to burn idk
Anyway, i love this!! I finally researched
This actually true she's taking about
Yes these are all true facts!
Why do my sweat smell like wild fragrance flowers, I don't use any perfume.
The smell of sunblock! 🤙🤙🤙
I love new car smell, Brand new product first unboxing smell, brand new paper smell, I die for red cedar oak wood smell, love the first time smell of new perfume. And you know we all love that summertime right before right after rainfall sweet ozone smell. love the smell of puppy and kitten. And i love the smell of high octane gasoline, and the unique smell of racing fuel and nitros. (sure an aquired taste, but it all smells like fun)
I have enjoyed reading your descriptions here! Personally, I love to take a brand new book and thumb the page super fast and smell that lovely brand new book smell. So delightful!
I have the captured fragrance... of wet soil of first rain...
Interesting!
I have an amazing sense of smel, to the point of it being embarrassing
I cannot stand the smell of Tide. Its so chemical to me. I make my own laundry detergent and scent it with essential oils.
I have congenital anosmie, I don’t even know what smell is
Royal Oud by Creed
I've an extremely acute sense of smell I hate it.
Thanks
👏👏
DO YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT STINKY GHOSTS WELL THEY ARE REAL
AMEN!
Lol, we have a pore sense of smell. So we smell what pores put out, lol 😆
The Proustian effect.
Interperspective
This is work take note
The Father and The Mother
Cruel but truth!! Ethel, Jerusalem Israel
Mmm industrial processed smells.
Top 10 smells
GRASS
GASOLINE
NAIL POLISH
GLUE
BALLS SCRATCH
TANGERINE PEEL
CHOCOLATE
SOAP
NEW CAR
BACON
Paint
Petrichor
First world problems and issues.
Why are you so negative? Do you smell bad?
May have been 3 years ago that you’ve said this but you’re a dunce.
哦耶
why does she sound depressed?
@@elpanderohabanero2915 the way she talks
I don't think she SOUNDS depressed but yet this content shows she is super nostalgic and these stories make me sad. Done listening really
The posture I think
Thanks