A Stick of Deodorant and A Memory

How a smell drummed up a very specific period of my life and left me wishing for a new standard in baseball sims.

I bought a new deodorant recently. Nothing fancy, I don’t think. The brand is Cremo, so a slight touch more fancy than Old Spice I guess. The scent is Palo Santo. I don’t spend a tremendous amount of time picking out the scents to my deodorants. Like the movies and games I write about, I typically can spot something I am going to like from a distance. Palo Santo was the first Cremo brand stick deodorant I grabbed. I took a light sniff, decided I liked it, and threw it in the cart. I’ve noticed over the span of my ten years of smoking cigarettes, they smell different when you smell someone else smoke it than when you are smoking yourself. It’s odd and inexplicable, though I am sure there is a scientific explanation somewhere. As a matter of cause and effect I have learned the same principle applies to other things as well.