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ZorbaTHut  2yr ago (text post)   3759 thread views

Friday Fun Thread for September 16, 2022

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What is the most relaxing scent and tactile sensation?

Scent is heavily tied to memory, so it's going to be personal.

For example, weirdly I find mild sewage smells to be kind of uplifting, because I associate them strongly with the beach town we visited when I was a kid (the sewer backed up whenever it rained on the street we walked to get to the beach) and summer camp and stuff like that.

Freshly laundered, cold cotton, and freshly laundered, cold cotton.

I find mint and the smell of fresh-cut grass pretty relaxing.

Tactile for me is the feeling of taking off wet socks or of sitting by a fire/bundling up in warm clothes and blankets when it's cold inside. Nothing like it.

I don't know if I'm relaxed by scents per se, but specific scents tend to act as memory triggers for me. The pomegranate Burt's Bees chap stick takes me mentally to early college, since that's what I would use a lot back then. I had bought this white tea and sage candle and had it going while I was playing Elden Ring a few months ago, so now that's the Elden Ring scent.

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