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A combination of home cooking, dust and love

Posted by Robin on 20 November 2020 5 Comments

It has now been over half a year since I’ve been inside my grandmother’s house. I visited her garden and said a socially distanced “Hello,” but it wasn’t the same. I missed the smell of her house. I used to stay there for a few nights every so often and I’d always come home smelling “of Granny’s house.” I wish there was a better word for it! I think it’s a combination of home cooking, dust and love.

— Aimee Ross of Inverness on a smell she would archive in her own smell museum. Read more in Welcome to Our Museum of Smells at The New York Times. Hat tip to Eschmeling!

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  1. Eschmeling says:
    20 November 2020 at 11:33 am

    I’m glad you enjoyed it, Robin! I find it especially affecting when a smell/scent evokes a memory you didn’t really know you had – I think when I first smelled Chanel No.5 and paying attention to it, I remembered my grandmother’s vanity, which would wobble when you walked (or perhaps ran) by, the little bottles (not Chanel, I think only stuff like 4711 etc.) clinking and shaking precariously.

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    • Robin says:
      20 November 2020 at 10:55 pm

      Agree…and I like the idea of a “scent archive”.

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  2. 50_Roses says:
    20 November 2020 at 12:06 pm

    My grandparents’ house always had a very particular smell to it. It might have had something to do with the wool carpets. I’m not sure what it was, but i would pick it up the moment I stepped into their house. Once in a while I encounter a smell that is similar, and I am immediately transported back to their house.

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    • Robin says:
      20 November 2020 at 10:56 pm

      Interesting! I have wool carpets and now I wonder if my house smells like your grandparents’ house. I never even thought of them as having a smell.

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      • 50_Roses says:
        21 November 2020 at 7:44 am

        I don’t know if that was it, but they did have wool carpets, The smell of the house was always the same, for many years. It wasn’t a “foody” type smell, and it wasn’t a musty smell. I would notice it immediately whenever I first went into their house, but after being there a while I didn’t notice it any more. Olfactory fatigue, I suppose.

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