Who has not happened to go down the street and a person passes and its aroma brings us to memory those moments with someone who was important in our lives or simply that smell of food that transports us to our childhood in a vivid and it makes us remember those moments with the grandmother, or that trip to the amusement park where we had so much fun and the smell of crispeta was simply part of the experience and now we know it more than ever. We will tell you why smells bring us memories.
Why is this phenomenon occurring in our mind? The truth is that our sense of smell is the most powerful of our senses and has a direct connection with our mind, our nose has mucous membranes that are connected to neurons that in turn are connected to the olfactory bulb and this to the limbic system where They stimulate and associate smells with experiences, places, people, objects, among other things. This is known as brain association, In short our sense of smell is our best sense to evoke past experiences with a strong emotional charge that gave rise to that moment.
The sense of smell and the cerebral association is considered a primitive sense of the human being nowadays is used in aroma therapy making the person relax associating pleasant smells to the rest of the senses.
Knowing this, we can not avoid thinking: how do we want to be remembered? What experiences do we want them to remember about us? What is that aroma with which we want to be associated with those memories? Some good questions to choose that aroma that represents us or the fragrance with which you want to be remembered, and maybe that's why the saying "remember is to live".