Smell

I love the smell of TIC TACS. The sweet subtle hint of sugar and almost no trace of mint really because that is hidden underneath. But not just any tic tacs...it's the smell of the white ones. Don't get me wrong though...I don't go around sniffing tic tacs that would just be weird. You just open the box and as you hold it close to your face to rip that adhesive paper that keeps it closed, a WAFT of air pops out and you feel a hint of that smell at the tip of your nose. Do I love tic tacs themselves? Well not like crazy obsessed love, but how is it possible to not like them? 

So why? Why tic tacs? I don't know...that smell gives me some sort of comfort that I can't explain. It flashes me back to the days when I was little and I can remember going in to a store and my parents would buy me a little box of tic tacs. Then I would eat them in the car, or sometimes just as I walked holding my mom's hand on the streets of my city. Sometimes it also gives me a feeling of some memory from my childhood that I can't remember and I guess I like the mystery of it because my childhood is very shady in my mind...I don't really remember a lot of it. So the tic tac smell reminds me of a feeling of content happiness.

And in general smells are very powerful...even though we may not think about it. 

I always like to ask people "what is your favorite smell?" instead of the same old "what is your favorite color?" but I think it's really just so that I can show off my absolutely delicious and perfectly unique favorite smell. Smells have a way of associating themselves to people, to memories, and to feelings. That perfume that she always wears, or that food that you ate everyday, and that place where they check your teeth, your grandmother, your ex boyfriend, excited, scared, happy.

 

And of course...you know that I just made you really curious and you want to go buy some tic tacs and smell them.