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What scent immediately takes you back to your childhood
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"CK one when it first came out. Everyone was wearing it I the early 90s
I still do  "
I smelt it at as club recently. Took me back to the days of Rage against the machine |
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"manure.my great uncle had a farm next door to where i lived with my mam nan and brother.you could always smell that coming from the farm."
Manure for me too, or as my mum always used to call it 'country smells'. My grandfather managed a farm and we always seemed to managed to visit just as they were doing the muck spreading. Windows quickly wound up, but never before that stench got stuck in the nostrils for hours! |
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Insecticide.
I kid you not, where I lived part of my childhood there was a large warehouse which stored them and the helicopter would come and fill up,fly off and spray the Fields.
Amazingly we used to go and splosh around in what we called "the rainbow puddles"
Different chemicals all mixed up on the floor.
Now when I smell "that" smell, anyone who has smelled it knows the acrid, acidic smell that you never forget.
Takes me back to the 70's playing with our 5 legged flying dog.
Ok I made the last bit up.
It had four legs. |
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Before photocopying there were banda sheets. After we got our copy of the handout everything would stop for a couple of minutes while we huffed the fumes from the print.
That....
and Wimpy burger restaurants |
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Mum had a Lemon geranium in the bathroom and I hated it, hate them still. Horrible smelly plants. On the other hand Dad liked Tenants lager, & mum liked Advocaat & lemonade. They weren’t drinkers, just the odd one in a blue moon. Also seeing Dad on Nationwide at 6pm, he was the chairman of the Post Office so was on the TV occasionally. |
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The smell of old leather seats in an old car.
My dad had a 1950's Vauxhall Wyvern, many happy memories of journeys to the seaside and to Hereford.
I always stick my head inside the window of classic cars! |
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Cigar smoke a past farm worker always arrived late on Christmas Eve and chatted into the night with my parents and he stayed for two days continually smoking cigars the smell of cigars always reminds me of Christmas in a happy way |
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Lynx, all the flavours, java, tempest, Africa.
I think we might have caused more damage to the ozone layer with that stuff after 5th period cross country than post war industrialisation. |
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I think it has been discontinued but the original Dior Poison. Reminds me of my first kiss because she was wearing it. It was a newly launched scent and had a distinctive smell. I still remember the smell simply by thinking of it. She smelt heavenly....oh and the kiss was good too. |
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Strong cigarette smoke from visiting the grandparents. I used to leave their houses with stinging eyes.
Creosote. It was my job as a kid to creosote the fences each year. Hated it but it got me a quod for sweets ?? |
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"Before photocopying there were banda sheets. After we got our copy of the handout everything would stop for a couple of minutes while we huffed the fumes from the print.
That....
and Wimpy burger restaurants"
We had a copier at primary school called a Gestalt if memory serves. The ink or toner or whatever it was, must have contained ethanol, as I always thought fresh copies smelled of whiskey!
Smells are very powerful memory triggers because they are sensed by a part of the brain that we share with our common ancestors and it's a very primeval sense. |
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