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The Nose Knows: Scents from a home garden and a study on the connection between smell and memory

Hey there! My name is Rosie Sokolov and this is my Senior Year Project, in which I will learn how to distill scents from my home garden and research how smell is connected to memory in the brain. To get a general idea of my project, see what I'm reading, track my progress, or read some interesting tidbits I came across, look at the sidebar!

"[D]iscovering the art of natural perfumery was like crossing the threshold of a beautiful household and finding it utterly intact and splendidly furnished but deserted, as if it had been suddenly abandoned and was waiting to be reclaimed. I felt privileged to have the opportunity to create with these precious essences, and I began to see myself as a custodian of a sacred and vanishing art." -Mandy Aftel

"No sense has so strong a power of suggestion, the power of calling up ancient memories with a wider and deeper emotional reverberation, while at the same time no sense furnishes impressions which so easily change emotional color and tone, in harmony with the recipient's general attitude. Odors are thus specially apt both to control the emotional life and to be become its slaves" -Havelock Ellis

"Odor, oftener than any other sense impression, delivers a memory to consciousness little impaired by lapse of time, stripped of irrelevancies of the moment or of the intervening years, apparently alive and all but convincing. Not vision, not hearing, touch, nor even taste - so nearly kin to smell - non other, only the nose calls up from the vasty deep with such verity those sham, cinematic materializations we call memories" -Roy Bedichek

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My contact info: Rosie Sokolov, fiddlewise@gmail.com or rosiesokolov@gmail.com or rosie@falutin.net