Olfactory memory: expr. Olfactory memory is the faculty by which the brain retains the memory of smells or aromas perceived previously.
Aromas always refer us to our history and are never neutral. This is the phenomenon of Proust's famous madeleine, the smell of which was buried in the writer's olfactory memory (see the text of the famous madeleine below).
The text of the famous madeleine
It had already been many years since, from Combray, everything that...
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