Don’t you love it when you smell somethingand it takes you back to another time?  Today I wore some perfume that I hadn’t worn in years (this was a sample I got from the Lancome counter).  As soon as I put it on, I realized I had worn the scent on my honeymoon 6 years ago.  Immediately, I smiled and remembered all of the fun we had on our trip.

On a related scent: I like Yankee Candles car fresheners, except when I open the whole package and the entire car becomes a chamber of nasal torture!  I tried out the Home Sweet Home scent, accidentally opened the whole container and suddenly the normal subtle apple and cinnamon aromas sent (no pun intended) me in a time machine back to 1993.  It was Barndance for my sorority… we had botas filled with some cinnamon flavored liquor.  It wasn’t good.  It wasn’t good at all. 

Flash forward… now, I’m in the car with 2 noisy kids, fruit snack wrappers and dirty Kleenex litter the interior of my car and all I can think of was, “Who was my set-up/random dude/date that night and why on earth did I drink that crap?!?!?”

In any case, I still think it’s cool that the smells can take you back so easily.  In the future, when I smell Desitin and Kraft Mac N’ Cheese, I’m sure I’ll think back to the Fall of ’08 with fond memories.