Arlo and Janis by Jimmy Johnson for December 02, 2014
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Transcript:
Arlo: What is that smell? Janis: "That smell" is me! Janis: I've worn the same scent for 20 years! I thought I'd try something different! Arlo: NOOO...!! Janis: And here, I was thinking you wouldn't notice.
I find that a remarkable number of women don’t really understand the power of scent. Why do their mothers not explain it to them? There is no sense more powerfully linked to memory. Passing someone in a mall wearing a particular scent and instantly, a girlfriend from high school 50 year ago is brought to mind. If a woman establishes a signature scent early on, her scent will recall to her lover all the wonderful times, and should the relationship change, she will know that he can never wholly forget her, because from time time, that scent will bring her to mind as if she were there in the room. Arlo could indeed, in time, adapt to the new scent, but her strong associations in the mind of the man who has been her one-woman man since college will be seriously degraded. It’s not really under his control. The signature scene is literally intoxicating. At least he knows what to get her for Christmas, a sufficient supply of her familiar scent that she will not repeat the experiment.