What Makes a Kiss Unforgettable?

Kisses. If we’re lucky, we’ll spend a lifetime making many picture-perfect kissing memories. And like other happy moments, we’ll keep a mental scrapbook, collecting these souvenirs like postcards to mark them in our hearts and minds.

But what makes a kiss unforgettable? Is it how romantic it was? How steamy and sexy? How tender or heartbreaking? How it made us “fa-shizzle” hither and yon? How it touched our hearts and souls? Or is a kiss made memorable by all sorts of pieces coming together in that ultimate collision of senses, emotions and experiences?

And have you ever wondered why is it we are able to remember momentous kisses throughout our lives— like the first boy we ever kissed, or that first one with that someone special—but can’t recall what happened the other day? Maybe it’s our hearts, not our heads that remember.


UNFORGETTABLE FANTASIES

Our adolescence is also when we usually start dreaming about kissing, be it with the adorable boy next store or the teen idol in our favorite magazines. Surely many of us taped a poster of some dreamy celebrity or hot rock star to the wall or ceiling above our beds believing the object of our youthful lust would ravish us with kisses among our schoolbooks and stuffed animals. The wonderful folly of the teen mind!

And those sky-high dreams might follow us into adulthood. Only now, they might feature a handsome hero man (who’s a ringer for George Clooney) snatching us from the jaws of some sinister villain while simultaneously ravishing us with breathtaking kisses (and of course, our hair and makeup look glamorous despite several days in captivity!).


UNFORGETTABLE SCENTS AND TASTES

Scents or tastes, like the smell of a flower, the flavor of a chewing gum or a cologne that lingers, might also make a kiss unforgettable. I remember one hottie who made his kisses last a lifetime by “spritzing” the love notes he mailed with his aftershave. Stacking this pile of kisses on my bedside table, the supple, silky sweetness of his sexy smooches would waft over me in the dark. The fragrance of it curled my toenails!

“It was thy kiss,Love,that made me immortal.”
MARGARET FULLER (1801–1880)

UNFORGETTABLE INSPIRATIONS

A kiss can be just as unforgettable for the changes it inspires in us as for the sexy, feel-good giddiness. Like the kind of kiss that would’ve awakened Snow White off that glass bed in that forest. A kiss like that can open a heavy, jammed door, and let the sun shine and the birds sing again. It has power, shifts our outlook, boosts our ego, and can even make us forget something like a broken heart. A kiss like that restores the faith and hope that there’ll always be unforgettable kisses to be made.