It seems that smells are common memory triggers. My sister told me she would not listen to music that was common at a time of her life she wanted to forget,
youre lucky one of my grandmas smelled like rothmans cigarettes...the other one smelled like pee and mothballs music is my biggest trigger,,,certain songs that were playing at certain vertices of life
when i hear right wing politics today, it reminds me how truly fucked up the 1950s and mccarthyism really were.