LANIER SMITH

 

Lights! Camera! WRITE!

 

I am Lanier Smith of Scents Memory, a fragrance review blog. This blog is not about what smells good or stinks. Well there maybe some stinkers here, I’ll let you decide. What I am sharing with you are my stories. Some of the old ones that were inspired by fragrance and then new pieces that are without any affiliation to scent but in many cases to memory.

In my mind my stories are film strips, clips and bits of cinema in word form. That is what I see when I tell a story or write.

So, let’s begin here. There was an old movie palace in my childhood that was my haunt and escape. The Fox Theater in Riverside California, Spanish Revival in it’s 1920’s design. It was cool in the August afternoons and filled with dreams. Heavy drapes covered the cinemascope screen, soft music faded with the lowering of the lights. A Studio logo came up on the curtain as it slowly opened and the fanfare furled out over the audience. The Story begins.