Smell is so powerful, you know. My grannies would both bake things like shortbreads and cookies. I think whenever I smell those kinds of things it really takes me back to my childhood.
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I love cookies baking. During the winter, they have these candles that smell like cookies, and I always buy like a hundred of them.
I'm just a huge fan of smells, first of all. I have a bit of an obsession with smells.
I grew up to the smell of doughnuts, scones, pies, and bread.
Scents evoke very, very powerful memories, whether it's the scent of someone that you know and someone that you love, or if it's a meal that your mother made.
My mother worked in a chocolate factory, so when I came home from school, I had a piece of baguette with dark chocolate in it. I remember her smelling like chocolate.
One thing I always make - and I'm sure this is partly to do with memory and yearning and because I've made it ever since my children were born - I make gingerbread every year. And it's partly just the perfume of the spices in the house, makes it smell like winter to me.
Then my uncle would give off the smell of freshly baked bread which I love.
Smell is stimulating. It stirs things up and makes us nostalgic - a wonderful word which literally means 'ache for home' - which serves to inspire new circuits in the brain.
Smell is incredibly important and sensual; it communicates who you are.
Everyone knows that there are some odors that send you directly back to memories of your childhood - odors from Christmas time and so forth.
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