I know why this is: it’s because my mom, the only family member that I was close with, smoked a whole bunch, and so I have positive childhood associations.
Whether it be the active smell of somebody who’s smoking nearby or the lingering scent that’s left or that sticks around in place where people smoke frequently, such as bars or hallways or similar, I like it a lot.
Yet even so, I was actually stunned when I found that there are very few people who agree, and many are the folks who think that it smells bad.
It’s really fascinating how scents are tied to memory, like if that scent didn’t bring good memories of your mom, would you still like it? It’s an unanswerable question, just interesting to me.
A lot of people in my family smoke/smoked and I smoked for a lot of years, but I also haven’t smoked for a lot of years now. There are different types of cigarette odors. Some of them don’t bother me and I actually like, but some of them make me nauseous.
Yeah scent memory is wild. I can smell something and have it bring me back to some perfume my middle school crush wore… Shit is insane.