believe me, I know this is completely absurd

[rm]

Since sometime yesterday afternoon, I've been periodically smelling a very specific scent, that lof an oil used in love spells for candle magick. It's a very specific scent and if you were ever fourteen and a big honking idiot like me you probably know it.

This could be any number of things -- a sudden inexplicable shift in my body chemistry with some BPAL I wear all the time, some weird celiac neuro hallucination thing, or another mystery smell floating through New York that will eventually make homeland security news.

Regardless, it's annoying and creepy and weird. And sort of funny, as in funny odd, no funny haha.

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I spent months convinced I was either delusional or developing a weird form of synaesthesia because a specific Siouxsie and the Banshees album smelled like patchouli. Eventually I realized that my copy really did smell like patchouli, and for some reason, so did every other copy in London, and other people confirmed this. Years later a former record store manager explained that this album had been shipped along with some weird patchouli sample that went along with someone else's album - I forget what.