Get ready to take a trip down (your nose's) memory lane because we're talking about the scents of our youth. Oh, and: We're making a plan to prevent contingency-planning from becoming a full-blown hobby.

Scent-sational reading: this 1988 New York Times article, written during the dawn of the age of the perfume ad, the book The End of Fashion by Teri Agins on how perfume and stockings became luxury-brand cash cows, and this BBC article about the heyday of celebrity fragrances.

Scentmatchers.com—go for the URL, stay for the extensive dropdown menu.

Check out our near-obsession Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman for a welcome perspective on time-management.

Did you have a signature scent? Is there some discontinued fragrance you're sniffing around for? We need to know—@athingortwohq, [email protected], and 833-632-5463!

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