Perfume


                                                                                      
    

I think, visual images can always give us the most instant impact;music can put us
into a certain atmosphere totally, and as for smell, it serves as the best way to connect with our memories. Sometimes you unexpectedly encounter a smell, which is so familiar and
it's just like you're drawn back to some specific moments in the past. You still can tell
what your feelings at that moment are even if you are not able to describe the whole
scene clearly...This kind of experience is really special, and thus by heart we know
that all the stuff in our memories do exist...

In Amsterdam Airport, perfumes are on sale.

i imagine that people from all over the world, with all different kinds of personalities,
go there and be attracted by the discount. In different hours, they pick up the same
kind of perfume. All of them like this smell.
Then, they departed, traveling to other corners of this big big world.

Some day, they gonna wear the same smell. With this kind of smell, they pass totally
different daily lives, do totally different things, travel in totally different places, and meet
totally different people.

Some day, maybe ten years later, they don't use the perfume anymore.
But, what if they somehow unexpectedly encounter this smell again, what will they think of?
what kinds of memories will come to them?
What feelings they will go through again via this smell?
I wonder...

Comments

  1. This is sooooo beautiful :)
    I think there are a few kinds of smell that characterize my home town, and it's always thrilling to encounter these smell elsewhere.

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