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Smells that take you back to your childhood
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over a year ago
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Freshly baked bread. It used to fill a narrow alleyway where the vent was on the wall. I think it was a Spar food store. Long gone now. Always think of that time if I walk down that row. |
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Petrichor smell. Walking home in the Summer rain.. getting my flowery swing dress, handmade by my Grandma..completely soaked. The smell of raw cake dough.. and when it's about to come out of the oven hitting powerfully your nostrils.
And aroma of violets I used to collect in a forest nearby then pop them into tiny shot glass upon returning home. |
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"Tomatoes in a greenhouse smell. Reminds me of my Grampy and me helping out with the watering."
Yes! My auntie had a big greenhouse as they were for sale. It is such a strong and amazing smell! |
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"For me cold tar soap.
Reminds me of my nans house."
I use that daily. It keeps my T area oil free and spotless. It keeps my V area fresh 
One feels very clean afterward. Good old scrub with a brush. |
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For me it would be my Dad as he came home from work.
His overalls were grease soaked and that industrial oil smell was mingled with the aroma of cooled swarf that flew from turned metals and adhered to his clothing. He wore a very expensive but worn out check t coat to keep warm and that smelled the same as it hung on the door in the kitchen.
As he bathed or washed in the sink the smell of carbolic as it wafted through other rooms on steamed air....... awww I want a block of carbolic. |
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"For me it would be my Dad as he came home from work.
His overalls were grease soaked and that industrial oil smell was mingled with the aroma of cooled swarf that flew from turned metals and adhered to his clothing. He wore a very expensive but worn out check t coat to keep warm and that smelled the same as it hung on the door in the kitchen.
As he bathed or washed in the sink the smell of carbolic as it wafted through other rooms on steamed air....... awww I want a block of carbolic. "
My dad smelt of where he worked I still get a waft of it although not in a while as the perfume factory he worked at is not far! When the wind blows in this direction x |
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"For me cold tar soap.
Reminds me of my nans house."
I love cold tar soap, I still use it.
For me unfortunately the smell of childhood for me was bloody dog shit on my shoe.
At least some things have got better. I don’t know if there’s less shit or I look where I’m walking now.
I think it’s both.  |
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When I was a young lad I used to have to walk past a tarmac works on my to my nans, nowadays every time I smell fresh tarmac being laid on a road it takes me right back to those days in the mid seventies |
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"For me cold tar soap.
Reminds me of my nans house.
I love cold tar soap, I still use it.
For me unfortunately the smell of childhood for me was bloody dog shit on my shoe.
At least some things have got better. I don’t know if there’s less shit or I look where I’m walking now.
I think it’s both. "
Lol! Remember my 40 year old son when he was little came home from park he had gone down the slide and there was dog poo on grass at bottom and it was up his back head to toe!  I made him strip on the door step! X |
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Linseed oil, summer days in the pavilion oiling my cricket bat. Won't say what happened behind the pavilion. Suffice to say it wasn't just a sneaky smoke. |
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This thread warmed my heart completely and made me feel the love .
Transported me back to innocent times and that feeling that all is okay with the world
Nice to feel the person behind the profile x |
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"Tomatoes on the vine, my grandad had a large greenhouse he used to grow them in. X "
Yes my grandad did the same also, fresh mint out the garden and from the flowers to the leaves chrysanthemums takes me back to the garden of the seventys. |
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Gt85 lubricant spray, reminds me of tinkering in my dads garage as a child
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Takes me back to my Great Grannys on a summers day. 
Cut grass, fresh air, and new born lamb smell! 