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.

Comments

[fuyukodachi.livejournal.com]

Depending on who is lurking in my periphery, I have sometimes suddenly smelled jasmine, basil/rosemary, and cedar/pine.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Maybe someone's casting a love spell on you!

[feyandstrange.livejournal.com]

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.

[alabastard.livejournal.com]

Scent flashbacks are very common with Me.

[alabastardragon.livejournal.com]

oils used in love spells are usually rose, vanilla, frankincense and musk usually so it could be any of those.

[mingbutterfly.livejournal.com]

Sorry, I just stumbled in here... I like to believe for some kind of cosmic reason or... something.

Anyway, the exact same thing happened to me a couple weeks ago. A different recognizable smell, but not something I have here. I never could figure out where the smell was coming from, so I just figured it was one of those bizarre, inexplicable X-files type experiences () and tried not to worry about it. If you believe in otherworldly type stuff, subtle smells are supposed to be pretty common... And if they are pleasant, they are a very good sign. :-)

[nobodyreally.livejournal.com]

Scent works in mysterious ways...I touched a vial of essential oil to move it the other day and ended up baking bread that smelled like lavender two days later. WTF? (of course, lavender bread is not so bad but still...)

[cookie-cm.livejournal.com]

Maybe an omen, scents are known to present a coming of, or a message from. What ever the reason, I love the mystery.