Scents

[Cissy]

Do different scents change your mood?

I know it does for me. One second I'll be depressed, then someone passes by with an amazing perfume, and I'll suddenly feel happy.

What about you guys? What scents affect you, and how do they affect you?

[Pelafina]

Smell is the sense most closely linked with memory, so that might explain the rapid mood changes.

Peoples' houses are the smells I do this with most often.

[Rabello]

Usually if someone farts, it changes my mood very quickly.

I mean yeah, overall they do... Probably not because of some parfume, but for example if I am in a bad mood, smelling the food my gradmother made changes that pretty quickly.

[Antiquity]

Yeah, they sorta do for me.
If I smell food I get sort of excited for some reason.
Then I go to the thrift store and smell the scent of old people and clothes and I suddenly get bored.

[TheMuffinMan]

That's called being emotionally unstable.

See a therapist, crazy.

[snowdog]

Originally Posted by Pelafina

Peoples' houses are the smells I do this with most often.

Yes. :0 I thought that when I read the first post.

Mmm, yeah, I guess. And I like when smells are reminiscent of stuff.

<3

[Ordeith]

Hmm...whenever I enter one of my friend's houses, the smell makes me feel rather stifled and unhappy.
It's not even that bad of a smell, but it always make me feel as though I've been sitting in an overheated car for an hour or so.

[Xeon{Myroku}]

Usually when I smell something fuirty and delicious it just makes me hungry. Man the stuff these women put on it just taunts my stomach and me that's it's time to eat. Scented lotions, perfumes, conditioner, and all that other stuff women put on. It just makes me drool and makes me feel all right.

[Constellations]

yeah it does lol like if my mom lights a candle and its like the christmas tree smell i'll get happy

i love candles and their scents lol they make me all warm inside

[Xeon{Myroku}]

Ugh, most candles that my mom buys I can't stand. Once there lighted I sniff around and go, "What's that smell?" My mom goes, "I just lighted a candle. Why what's wrong with it?" I go, "I think the smell expired or something because it just wants to make me want to throw up. Thanks alot for farting Mandy." looks at the dog.

[Ren]

I love the smell of grass. That's a huge turn on. *Is shot*
But yeah, scents change my mood. Sometimes they make me ticked off, sometimes they brighten up my mood.

Scents carry such a heavy emotional weight. A kid at my school went through therapy because something he smelled at school made him go insane. I don't even know what'd happened to him to make him remember things.

And then there's the whole sexual side of smells. I think I told you (or at least the h/b thread) about how scents can determine if you're compatible with someone. ;D

[Lycanthrope]

I can't stand the smell of cinnamon. No idea why.

[Informal Gluttony]

One of my friends smells like shit. His whole house does.

It's why I never sit by him at lunch.

[Nostalgia]

The scent of something I haven't seen in a long time tends to give me more nostalgia than just looking at it again.

[Spic Steve]

Certain situations in my mind have scents tied to them. If I smell it, even if only for one inhale, I remember it and wish to inhale more of the scent if it was a good memory.