tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125354955146250762.post7276124178728557981..comments2024-02-20T16:10:31.948-07:00Comments on First Nerve: Pop Quiz: Psycho-Olfactive Sleuthing ContestAvery Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18104017679971839738noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125354955146250762.post-33281770854718006132015-06-25T16:33:35.649-07:002015-06-25T16:33:35.649-07:00Well, at 15 I certainly wasn't particularly aw...Well, at 15 I certainly wasn't particularly aware of scent or nostalgic - I was still absorbing my first impressions of everything, and hadn't lost much yet. I was wearing my first perfume by then, but it had been a gift from my mother. And I liked it, but I also liked it because I trusted her and had no real experience to compare it to. So - experience is a factor. Nostalgia also is an emotion of loss and displacement. A child can feel it if, say, they moved very far away from the landscape of childhood to a new geographic location with foreign sights/smells/sounds. So...I guess what I'm saying is nostalgia is related to loss and at what point loss occurs in a person's life. My guess is Shipka has not lost much yet.wesleyhallparkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09842858056447553757noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125354955146250762.post-56716581167119870792015-06-25T13:12:30.131-07:002015-06-25T13:12:30.131-07:00wesleyhallparker:
And people call me a hard-ass! ...wesleyhallparker:<br /><br />And people call me a hard-ass! You're no slouch in the close-reading department.<br /><br />Re: Shipka being a kid. Raises an interesting point: how old does one have to be to really experience olfactory nostalgia? (Earliest recallable odor memories usually date from childhood; she's fifteen.) She uses the word but I'm not sure she's feeling it.Avery Gilberthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18104017679971839738noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125354955146250762.post-72804774279899334652015-06-25T12:48:05.888-07:002015-06-25T12:48:05.888-07:00This was fun - thank you for the invitation to sle...This was fun - thank you for the invitation to sleuth! I read the comments before reading your article, and agreed re: Kiernan Shipka was totally the winner. (But let's cut the poor girl some slack; she's a kid.) I also thought Hilfiger's answer was strangely narcissistic. The other answer that stood out to me was Linda Evangelista's - what was interesting is that she talks more in terms of sight (watching her father and grandfather) than of smell (she talks about memories of them mowing the lawn but doesn't mention the smell of cut grass at all). So what struck me is that she is describing her father's and grandfather's relationship to scent - how she WATCHED them put sprigs of herbs behind their ears - and now that her father is gone, she is emulating their behavior, and discovering that connection as well. So, the focus on scent is sort of a new thing for her. But she's predominantly a visual person.wesleyhallparkerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09842858056447553757noreply@blogger.com