Yes they do! I can think of loads but cotton smells like clean washing; grass is obvious; blue smells like baby talc; love smells like Calvin Klein’s Eternity. I could go on and on but I won’t ‘cos I’ll get boring. lol
Ps..your smell word from me is…........fresh laundry! or French Laundry..which is a very top notch food establishment here..where they only serve…....THE BEST!!
NOW FOR YOU….........I can’t help but say.. my fav smell is this unidentfiable one.. I get in the redwoods out here.. when I get this smelll I stop and close my eyes and breath..so the word. is…..’2….unidentifiable redwood smell..opps thats 3 tee hee
Ok, you asked….lol Castles remind me of cinnamon because of the smell on Main Street in Disneyland; I can smell coffee whenever I see it written down; car reminds me of the gorgeous oily smell in garages, as does the word ‘dungarees’ or ‘overall’; clean – I smell Natty Blue wax which I use to wax my car with. It smells like bubblegum; If you REALLY want more I shall return. lol I’m getting worried about my sanity.
MORE IS MY MIDDLE NAME! I have to go for awhile..but while I am driving I know I will think of a few.. dirt.. I can smell coffee too by just the name and BBQ … I can sure smell that when i look at that word!
You’re naming the scents you notice conciously, think about what your mind registers subconciously as you read…and you don’t even realize it. Some say that we have a ancient communal pool of memories encoded into our DNA, that helps feed our intuition..think of the smell of fear, danger etc. We may even recognise these scents from our distant ancestors as we read words that trigger our subconcious…
And there are odors that conjure much more than a simple word… for instance, cellar is a word that may have as many different smells as people. However, there are instances when I’ll walk into an antique store, or a very old person’s home, and get a whiff that stops me in my tracks for about a half second (or eternity) in remembrance of “Granny Jim’s” root cellar, where she kept all the canning and stuff for the winter – for an instant, I’m 5 again, in my great grandmother’s cellar – everything in the universe was perfect in that moment – And when I smell that smell I nearly cry every time. So, When I see the word cellar I not only smell it, but I experience it to some degree.
Now, the word downstairs for me, has quite a different odor, and is reminiscent of times that I’d rather not think about, the smell is foul and the experiences (many) were profoundly horrifyingly terrible. Terror doesn’t begin to describe…
Oh….. it is really interesting.. A whole “panoply” of old scents, and reminiscences of our first days.. yes..all that is fantastic. Let´s not forget the “correlations”, or the way the brain is trying to correlate not just chronbological events with a definite smelling, but to give to a happening or a feelings a sort of correlative “scent label”. Well… no here .. everyone has edpressed their opinions about the most intimate, strong or “soul-animated” scents.. I know al that. Is a world or whhole and holy creation… and most of them related to perfumes, foods, or homely enviroments… and quite agreable I must say. But to tell you the truth this is totally personal. Beleive it or not… since I was a very young woman….that is since my first menstruation I got captured by the strong relationship between the blood that was coming out of my body and the rust… the strong odour of the iron. And that with the first sexual feromones that I could sense has been accompanied my during my fertile years… I cannot think of something of most intense intimacy than this….. Now it is different.. and as my intimate odour has vanished with age… then I can say.. that I can smell thougts… looks, voices… and yet… I was talking about solitude… that is because even we can feel the smells… and love them or reject them… we cannot hold them for long… not grasp them, nor put them under the earth and make them grow like if they were seeds.. Somehow they seem… volatile…and that is… a Troment and an Extasis. Rosa
Dear Rosa,, In these 4 long hours away from RB.. I come back to see you have taken this to another level!! You are amazing and I simply cannot think!! I cannot even want to think that deep now.. but I am comforted to know you do this for me sometimes and just give me the icing on the cake and I will take just a little bit and be content.. love.lina
Patricia Anne ..., 3 months ago
I think it is wonderful.. I like everything you do! LOL great calab!
Jaybe, 3 months ago
Yes they do! I can think of loads but cotton smells like clean washing; grass is obvious; blue smells like baby talc; love smells like Calvin Klein’s Eternity. I could go on and on but I won’t ‘cos I’ll get boring. lol
linaji in reply to Jaybe’s comment, 3 months ago
LOLOLO YOU ARE A FIRECRACKER AND I HAVE TO GO!! I WOULD LIKE YOU TO GIVE A FEW MORE SMELLY WORDS PLEASE..XOX
linaji in reply to Patricia Anne McCarty’s comment, 3 months ago
Patricia… thank you… if there was a smell word for you.. I think it would be…..opium…xox
Patricia Anne ..., 3 months ago
oooooooo! like that one grin!
linaji in reply to Jaybe’s comment, 3 months ago
Ps..your smell word from me is…........fresh laundry! or French Laundry..which is a very top notch food establishment here..where they only serve…....THE BEST!!
aspectsoftmk, 3 months ago
garlic…lemon zest…roses…a well worn grill…skunk…....so yes they smell…xoxoxox
Mui-Ling Teh, 3 months ago
Wow, you’ve actually posted a journal about this! Well I’ve answered that in the artwork. Haha, love smell Calvin Klein’s Eternity :P.
linaji in reply to aspectsoftmk’s comment, 3 months ago
NOW FOR YOU….........I can’t help but say.. my fav smell is this unidentfiable one.. I get in the redwoods out here.. when I get this smelll I stop and close my eyes and breath..so the word. is…..’2….unidentifiable redwood smell..opps thats 3 tee hee
aspectsoftmk, 3 months ago
i will smell that one day..yes…
linaji in reply to Mui-Ling Teh’s comment, 3 months ago
I was going to go out the door..now for me Mui-Ling is the smell of sandlewood …...
linaji in reply to Mui-Ling Teh’s comment, 3 months ago
all wrapped up in a little smell paper about 1/2c small.tee hee
Jaybe, 3 months ago
Ok, you asked….lol
Castles remind me of cinnamon because of the smell on Main Street in Disneyland; I can smell coffee whenever I see it written down; car reminds me of the gorgeous oily smell in garages, as does the word ‘dungarees’ or ‘overall’; clean – I smell Natty Blue wax which I use to wax my car with. It smells like bubblegum;
If you REALLY want more I shall return. lol I’m getting worried about my sanity.
Roy barry, 3 months ago
Coconut, strawberry, eucalyptus…..........
Mui-Ling Teh, 3 months ago
LOL! Not bad. You know Chinese/Japanese plum blossoms? My name is based on that kind of plum, and sandalwood also coming from an Asian tree~~
linaji in reply to Roy barry’s comment, 3 months ago
You…....salty as the Sea..when I see thee.. I can smell sea..
Roy/Sea/Thee?...oh tee hee! I can smell eucalyptus!
linaji in reply to Jaybe’s comment, 3 months ago
MORE IS MY MIDDLE NAME! I have to go for awhile..but while I am driving I know I will think of a few.. dirt.. I can smell coffee too by just the name and BBQ … I can sure smell that when i look at that word!
TeriLee, 3 months ago
One answer for your question…two words…
POOPY DIAPER…
Tell me those words don’t smell :) xo
RLHall, 3 months ago
You’re naming the scents you notice conciously, think about what your mind registers subconciously as you read…and you don’t even realize it. Some say that we have a ancient communal pool of memories encoded into our DNA, that helps feed our intuition..think of the smell of fear, danger etc. We may even recognise these scents from our distant ancestors as we read words that trigger our subconcious…
Anthony R. Pla..., 3 months ago
And there are odors that conjure much more than a simple word… for instance, cellar is a word that may have as many different smells as people. However, there are instances when I’ll walk into an antique store, or a very old person’s home, and get a whiff that stops me in my tracks for about a half second (or eternity) in remembrance of “Granny Jim’s” root cellar, where she kept all the canning and stuff for the winter – for an instant, I’m 5 again, in my great grandmother’s cellar – everything in the universe was perfect in that moment – And when I smell that smell I nearly cry every time. So, When I see the word cellar I not only smell it, but I experience it to some degree.
Now, the word downstairs for me, has quite a different odor, and is reminiscent of times that I’d rather not think about, the smell is foul and the experiences (many) were profoundly horrifyingly terrible. Terror doesn’t begin to describe…
Pain and suffering also have associative smells.
Ok, I’ll stop now…
helene ruiz, 3 months ago
excellent
Leslie Hagen, 3 months ago
The name Michael smells like vanilla to me
Ushna Sardar, 3 months ago
beautiful lina!!!!!! huggles xoxoxox
Mechellerene, 3 months ago
Oh yes, ma’am… I know it for a FACT! Now I’m off to see your collab. :)
RosaCobos, 3 months ago
Oh….. it is really interesting..
A whole “panoply” of old scents, and reminiscences of our first days..
yes..all that is fantastic.
Let´s not forget the “correlations”, or the way the brain is trying to correlate not just chronbological events with a definite smelling, but to give to a happening or a feelings a sort of correlative “scent label”.
Well… no here .. everyone has edpressed their opinions about the most intimate, strong or “soul-animated” scents.. I know al that. Is a world or whhole and holy creation… and most of them related to perfumes, foods, or homely enviroments… and quite agreable I must say.
But to tell you the truth this is totally personal.
Beleive it or not… since I was a very young woman….that is since my first menstruation I got captured by the strong relationship between the blood that was coming out of my body and the rust… the strong odour of the iron. And that with the first sexual feromones that I could sense has been accompanied my during my fertile years…
I cannot think of something of most intense intimacy than this…..
Now it is different.. and as my intimate odour has vanished with age… then I can say.. that I can smell thougts… looks, voices… and yet… I was talking about solitude… that is because even we can feel the smells… and love them or reject them… we cannot hold them for long… not grasp them, nor put them under the earth and make them grow like if they were seeds..
Somehow they seem… volatile…and that is… a Troment and an Extasis.
Rosa
linaji, 3 months ago
Dear Rosa,,
In these 4 long hours away from RB.. I come back to see you have taken this to another level!! You are amazing and I simply cannot think!! I cannot even want to think that deep now.. but I am comforted to know you do this for me sometimes and just give me the icing on the cake and I will take just a little bit and be content.. love.lina
MtnMan, 2 months ago
words generate electricity, and I can smell the spark. : )
linaji in reply to MtnMan’s comment, 2 months ago
yes.. Even in the knowing that one is reading the words themselves there is this:=}