“[Heartbreak] actually tastes like a bad acid taste in your mouth. It’s also smells like a combo of things coming up from the wrong place, like a hospital. We don’t need to spend too much time on this question”
Photo: Courtesy of Trudon Parfums Call it the Proust effect: Memories are often triggered by smells. Scientific studies confirm that, of all the senses, smell offers the best recall. In Scent Memories, the Cut asks people about the scents they associate with different times in their lives.
Love smells like: My wife is immediately the image that comes to my brain, but how do I explain why it is so immediate? I’m sure you know scent is the only sense directly related to the brain; it doesn’t travel to our nervous system. Not to say that it’s slow, but there’s nothing in between — it’s just the scent and then bam.
Friendship smells like: Something warm and toasty. One smell I really love is a sun-baked basketball court. The court I used to play on in Paris, I still go to now and then. They’re not made out of cement or asphalt. They’re made of this rubbery surface. It’s rubber and tires. It’s great for old knees. When it heats up in the summer, something comes out of it that’s quite interesting. Almost like a warm wet-suit kind of smell. Also, anything fresh out of the oven, like a pizza.
Vacation smells like: Surf wax. I was recently on my way to my uncle’s place in the Hamptons, and he has a typical American basement with a ping-pong table and a flat-screen TV and all this junk you just want to look through and a massive refrigerator. There’s a smell to that basement. I could stay a month down there, cuddled up. It’s just so comforting. I don’t know what it is — a mix of wood and plastic. But there’s something American to that smell.
Sunday morning smells like: My wife’s hair. It varies on a regular basis because she’s trying different haircare products and I always bring stuff back from my travels. I also try to stretch a few times in the week and I have a pretty cool yoga mat that has a nice rubber smell to it — not too strong; I think it has natural rubber in it. It also smells like book paper from reading. It’s nice to wake up and read before leaving bed. You need a good book for that.
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