摘要：This study describes how scents can be a trigger for the memories about relationships. Scents inhaleddo not only awaken a person's thoughts and feelings about the beautiful and fun memories in the past, but cantrigger emotions also, especially the emotion of love ending up in miserable way, without power to strengthen it.Change is constant, as well as scent, its existence can always be a trigger of the emotional memories of love thatis still tethered. Scents send specific messages of communication. They are associated with attraction and oftentrigger emotional romantic feelings. What can be triggered by scent or what sort of emotions that can be causedby a particular scent really depends on the experience, memories, and, to some extent, cultural backgroundbecause every culture has various mapping on scent. Scent is closely linked to perception. In communications,scent is classified as artifactual communication or nonverbal communication. Olfactics or olfactorycommunication, or the study of scent is very important in a variety of communication situations. Olfactics incommunications is to attract people's attention, to complement the flavors and tastes, to recall the events ofemotional situations, and to form an image of one self and identity. Scents specifically trigger the memories ofromantic feelings and affect a person’s feelings. This study analyzed the love relationships experienced byinformants who have had romantic relationship for at least one year. The paradigm used in this study ispositivism, with descriptive qualitative approach. Data collection techniques are in-depth interview andobservation.
