"life's smells"

im an absentee blogger - but now, i suddenyly find myself having the urge (and the time) to write about one of the things that fascinate me now - just to see if anyone shares the same fetish, and if it is not utterly insane to be happily obessesing about what i like to call the  "life's smells."  living alone does make you think a lot, and i have realized that i usually equate things, people, place, memories and feelings - to what else, but scents?!?

strongest on my olfactory senses and most prominent are the scents of my family - whenever i smell tobacco, the strong kind, i remember my dad.  cigarettes i equate to my brother.  spanish cologne to my sister.  and pungent, overly sweet floral scents and red lipstick to my mom.   

old boyfriends have distinct smells as well and accompanying good and bad memories attached -  safeguard and soap with paolo cui, a pleasant smell i equate to growing up.  cigarettes and soft batch cookies with brian, a patient -southern lay-back smell. axe cologne with mias - a scent which i found myself growingly irritated with (it stinks of the scent immature, annoying, short pre-pubescent boys wear).  pio smells like freshly warmed bagels and dove soap.

and there are my favorites...smells that make me smile, make me laugh..gives me an endorphin rush on a very, very, very bad day.  freshly brewed coffee, tangy, sharp...freshly peeled oranges...the smell of the rain, heavy, breathy, suffocating...milk...coconuts, reminscent of the sea, heady, strong...vanilla, cloy, irritatingly sweet and the scent i wear...melted chocolate...creamed butter and sugar over a low fire...donuts...aunti anne's pretzels...yellow stargazers in bloom...dove soap.. "november rain" the perfume of my hair conditioner...warmed whole wheat bagels...honey...and my favorite smell in the world...the milk scent found on babies, like sniffing new life, the smell of innocence.

and oh...nothing beats falling asleep to the scent of freshly baked cookies wafting through your apartment after a hard day's work. hmmmm...how amazing is that?

Comments

[Grace]

baby sister! that was a well-written blog---i i could almost hear you talking! you're right, scents always bring back a rush of memories :) and i never really realized that our whole family had a matching individual scent! shows how i'll probably forever be going back to de ne nes, which i've been using since i was eleven!!! oh and another scent would probably remind you of mias....wait what is it...oh, i know!!!! SHIT!!!!! mwahahahahaha!

[Peewee]

HAHAHA, evil big sister...

[Dante]

Fresh weed and rolling paper growing up in zobel, engine oil and unleaded gas a journey ahead.
he sounds of my life.

we always remember the faces we see

we always reminisce about the places weve been too

just tonight i remembered the sounds of what i do.

have you ever stopped to think about the sounds of you life?

well these are mine.

the roar of a v-twin coming to life.

the bubbles of my regulator at 130 feet below sea level.

the bursts of the bulbs as i click for a portrait.

the twin exhaust hum of a convertible at a punch of a button.

the poundings of a rock band onstage as i slurp my jack.

these are the audible pieces of gold i keep in my life bank.
tell me about yours.

a little poetry written by a very stoned friend.

weed makes you write very well, i think we should all smoke some.

[Grace]

fuck, why can't i come up with something as nice as that? give your very stoned friend a hug for me. i especially liked the "audible pieces of gold i keep in my life bank" part,

[Peewee]

god closed his eyes on you when he gave the gift of "art" to me and kuya...he made you a doctor, you're good at something else

[Grace]

yeah, i like to say that when nagsabog si God ng artistic talent, i was still asleep. i woke up in the "beauty and brains" part. oh and the "takaw kumain" part. heehee!!!

[Laida]

I am now sober and I can't see the point to be sober... It's hard to be sober... I miss getting stoned

[Peewee]

smells dont resonate when im stoned though...

[Grace]

stoned?!?! my baby sister gets STONED?!?! umuwi ka na dito!!!!!

[Peewee]

Hwahwahwaaaa...nagulat ka pa?