The Scents and the Memories.

So I was just reading a thread in /b/ about scents/smells.  Popular opinion holds that smell is the sense most likely to trigger memory; I find this to be true in my personal experience.  I have a grade school level theory for why this may be true.

We have sight, touch, taste, hearing, and smell.  We focus on the usage of sight, touch, and hearing, to function in daily life, and so all the information that these provide we nominally take for granted, unless they really, really move us.  We do not taste unless we first prepare for a fairly involved ritual, in relative terms: some sort of ingestion, usually.  "Taste" occurs when we purposefully take something in, with a good idea of what it might taste like.

Smell is sometimes invisible, and related to the larger environment.  When something traumatic, memorable, or otherwise highly significant occurs, we remember all its aspects-including frequently neglected scent.  Scent is often neglected because we all live in a "comfort zone", or neutral zone, of scent.  When we smell something out of the moment-to-moment ordinary, we remember the early memory associated with that scent, because the scent is the shortest path to that memory, however mundane it may be. 

Please discuss my theory.  Or, if you don't want to, feel free to discuss JEWS.  THOSE GOD-DAMNED JEWS!

JEWS have massive noses, thus they smell good.

I love the smell of burnt JEWS in the morning.

That explains why Jews are so crafty.  Their sense of smell gives them increased ability to detect money.