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How powerfully you bind a smell to a memory; a perfume can bring back years ago in an instant. The reason is anatomical: the smell nerves connect almost directly to the memory and emotion centers, with no 'thinking' layer in between. So smell skips your mind and touches your past directly.
— smell and memory / limbic system
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