Not just any ol' smells... smells that launch! Smells that evoke deep, long-forgotten memories of other places and times, and have the ability to transport. I don't expect that any of these will be useful to anyone but me personally, but perhaps they might encourage your own sensory memories to uproot themselves from your subconscious?
1) Cloakroom at Oakfield School (my English kindergarten)
2) Grandma's basement in upstate New York
3) Office hallways at Sarah Lawrence College
4) the Cafeteria at the American School of the Hague
5) my Aunt's mouldy childhood doll Sally
6) the frog-spawn pond near my house in Wassenaar
7) any theatrical smoke machine
8) decaying rats in the wall at Drama Centre
9) Skunk road-kill in Bronxville, NY
10) sweaty horse
11) La Selva farmhouse, Italy
12) the hushed-carpet of the Congressgebouw in The Hague
Other smells like coffee, fresh paint, weed, bacon, cedar wood, new carpet, saddle soap, airplane cabin, new car, wood wax etc. aren't specific or unique enough to be appropriate in this particular list.
"Sounds" will follow.
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