second smell test

This smell is very different from the first. It is not as strong and I can only smell it if I hold it up to my nose. It smells a little like coconut and some sort of flower. It mostly reminds me of a fresh clean spring time smell.

A stong scent

The first thing that comes to my mind is a magazine perfume insert. The kind where the page is glued down and you open it and smell a sharp fragrance and paper. The smell is fresh and seems as though it could cover up very common scents. This smell reminds me of whenever I would go out to places at night where people smoke a lot. At home I used to go to a local pool hall which was always filled with smoke and I used this to spray myself when I got home.

The Essential Sense of Smell

My sense of smell is very important to me. Since I have never lost my sense of smell, I could only imagine what it would be like. To live in a world where one could not smell any scents at all good or bad is hard to comprehend. I use my sense of smell everyday without realizing how valuable it is.

Smell is the strongest sense tied to memory. It is said that the average human can identify 10,000 different smells. This means without the sense of smell there would be 10,000 things that you could not recognize via memory.

For me, the smell of a freshly cooked turkey coming out of the oven triggers many memories of family Thanksgiving meals. Every Thanksgiving my family would have several relatives over for a big Thanksgiving meal. On those nights the smells did not stop at cooked turkey; there was stuffing, potatos, corn, dinner rolls, cranberry sauce, and of course my favorite, pumpkin pie. All of these smells are locked in my memory along with big family dinners where we talk all night and get ready for the holiday season.

My sense of smell is also very important to me because the sense of smell influences the sense of taste. Taste is only able to sense if something is sweet, bitter, sour, or salty. When one chews on a piece of gum one may taste if it is a sweet or sour type of gum, but without the sense of smell one would not be able to taste the refreshing mint, bubblegum, strawberry, or any other type of flavor. I could not imagine losing a sense such as this, thus making my sense of smell such an important one.