Biting, lemony aromas forever transport me to the night I stood in an oversized luxury glass shower overlooking Hangzhou, China, lathering my long, midnight black hair with pungent lemon shampoo.
That one cologne turns me into a college kid again, sitting cross-legged on the carpeted floor of my apartment, inhaling the scent left on my boyfriend's orange fur vest worn to our campus Halloween party.
Raspberry chapstick floods my mind with ups and downs, overloaded by years of daily use and unable to distinguish the first from the last.
The heavy scent of the ocean is my favorite. It reminds me to be.
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