The smells of childhood: those of our emotional past

Colored pencils, chocolate cake, grass cut in summer, the grandparents’ room we couldn’t get into and the smell of our mothers when they embraced us, childhood smells inhabit our brains like ajar doors, like powerful connections to an emotional past that we have access to remember those happy days. Psychologists call them “Fragrant Flashbacks”, which […]

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