The Autumn smell works the exact same way and triggers some of the strongest nostalgia I feel during any given year.Įvery year, usually later than now, when the air starts to change and the nostalgia comes on I find myself searching though my music to make a playlist appropriate to the season. The other day at a rehearsal for “Rope” I caught the scent of a very specific hairspray in the dressing room, a hairspray that I’ve smelled in dressing rooms for decades and with that one contact I was suddenly reminded of all of those shows. It almost smells as if the field is sweating before the game begins. I remember that smell, there really is nothing else like it. Football players talk about the smell of the field before a game. There are certain smells that just go with things. It’s a smell that reminds me of October and all of the Americana that goes along with it: changing leaves, costumes, Halloween in a Normal Rockwell kind of way, and the best parts of my adolescence.
I don’t know how to describe it other than wet and earthy. It’s only August, but just the other night I got a hint of a scent in the air that was unmistakable to me as Autumn.
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