Typically, odor associated autobiographical memories tend to be rarer, older, more vivid and more emotional than AMs associated with other stimuli. Even though this set of findings has been replicated the mechanism behind mechanism behind the findings is still unclear. One possible explanation is that the typical emotional processing of odors conflates with the experience of the memory itself, making the memory seem more emotional than it would have been if not retrieved in the presence of an odor. To test this hypothesis, we conducted three studies in which participants retrieved their memories in response to odors and other stimuli in one session and rated the respective memories in another session without the stimuli present. The results of the three studies will be compared to previous studies on this topic and possible mechanisms underlying differences between odor and other elicited AMs will be discussed.