The Daily Question
What smell takes you
straight back somewhere?
Smell gets there before you do.
Cut grass, and you are nine and it is the last week of the holidays. Coal smoke on a cold evening. Your granny's hand cream. Hot tar. A school corridor after floor polish. The inside of a particular car.
You are not remembering, exactly. For a second you are just there again, before you have had time to decide whether you wanted to be.
So — what smell takes you straight back somewhere?
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