When I was 11, I was standing at the front of my sixth-grade math class, panicking before going to the board. Sweaty palms. Racing heart. That awful feeling where your body acts like a math problem is an emergency. I reached into my Trapper Keeper and scratched a grape-scented sticker. And in one breath, I was gone. Back to the Olympic skating rink across from my school. Back to cold air, fast blades, grape soda, freedom, joy. For one split second, the panic disappeared. I’ve never forgotten that moment. Now I understand what happened: it wasn’t random. It was scent. Scent has a direct path to the part of the brain connected to emotion, memory, and safety. That little sticker didn’t just remind me of a better moment. It helped bring me back to one. And honestly? That changed everything. And why Pure Placid was created.