Sense Memories

The best smells that really evoke a visceral response for me:

• the wet-green smell of freshly mowed grass, especially if there are wild green onions mixed in;
• the peppery-hot smell of gunpowder from, say, fireworks;
• freshly baking chocolate chip cookies;
• the beginning smell of rain on concrete after it's been really hot-- that copper penny earthy electric hot lightning and wet smell;
• baking Thanksgiving Turkey;
• freshly ground coffee;
• coconut-suntan oil and sand and salty water that has a slightly fishy seaweed tinge;
• sour-apple jolly ranchers;
• that pastey glue you used when you were five--the kind some kids would eat, and its partner: construction paper;
• crayons.

What are your triggers?