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Last week my toddler had chicken pox, so we spent the whole week self-quarantined in our house, trying to find imaginative ways to distract and entertain our way out of both cabin-fever and genuine fever. I was shattered from late-night wake-ups and the many extra hours that seem to be added to the day when looking after a sick child… hence no blog posts until now! I did briefly escape the House of Pox for a trip to nearby Westfield, where I could quickly stock up on some necessities. While I was there, I stopped at a Chanel counter and (waiting impatiently for a salesperson that never came) I spritzed myself with an old favourite of mine, Chanel No. 19. That single spritz carried me back thirty years on its wings of fine mist, making me instantly feel like a sulky, bored-in-a-small-town, teenager again. As you probably know, the olfactory neurons in our upper noses connect to the nearby limbic system (responsible for memories and feelings) in our brains, so scent is intimately connected with our emotions. This is why scents like a familiar perfume, freshly cut grass, a baby’s skin, a cedar chest, cookies baking, rain on warm asphalt, and […]
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