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Highly evocative smells that get your brain thinking.
Brylcreem = grandfather; old spice = father; isis perfume = first sexual encounter.
What smells make you instantly connect your brain to the past?  |
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"Highly evocative smells that get your brain thinking.
Brylcreem = grandfather; old spice = father; isis perfume = first sexual encounter.
What smells make you instantly connect your brain to the past? "
Isis perfume??
That sounds a bit... terroristy? |
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"Highly evocative smells that get your brain thinking.
Brylcreem = grandfather; old spice = father; isis perfume = first sexual encounter.
What smells make you instantly connect your brain to the past?
Isis perfume??
That sounds a bit... terroristy?"
Is was quite popular in the 90s....think it was a house of Fraser brand |
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Kouros - bloke I worked with for 20 years
Garlic sausage - other bloke I worked with for 20 years.
Toffee - the factory around the corner from where I lived as a kid. Always hanging around for the broken bits.
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"Highly evocative smells that get your brain thinking.
Brylcreem = grandfather; old spice = father; isis perfume = first sexual encounter.
What smells make you instantly connect your brain to the past?
Isis perfume??
That sounds a bit... terroristy?
Is was quite popular in the 90s....think it was a house of Fraser brand "
Well I'm now picturing a very dark and disturbing advertising campaign   |
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By *agatoXXXMan 8 weeks ago
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"Highly evocative smells that get your brain thinking.
Brylcreem = grandfather; old spice = father; isis perfume = first sexual encounter.
What smells make you instantly connect your brain to the past?
Isis perfume??
That sounds a bit... terroristy?
Is was quite popular in the 90s....think it was a house of Fraser brand "
It was an Egyptian Goddess, until House of Fraser & Islamic State infringed her copyright. |
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"Highly evocative smells that get your brain thinking.
Brylcreem = grandfather; old spice = father; isis perfume = first sexual encounter.
What smells make you instantly connect your brain to the past?
Isis perfume??
That sounds a bit... terroristy?
Is was quite popular in the 90s....think it was a house of Fraser brand
Well I'm now picturing a very dark and disturbing advertising campaign "
She smelt good at the time |
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"Highly evocative smells that get your brain thinking.
Brylcreem = grandfather; old spice = father; isis perfume = first sexual encounter.
What smells make you instantly connect your brain to the past?
Isis perfume??
That sounds a bit... terroristy?"
It’s made with rosewater and gunpowder. |
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"Highly evocative smells that get your brain thinking.
Brylcreem = grandfather; old spice = father; isis perfume = first sexual encounter.
What smells make you instantly connect your brain to the past?
Isis perfume??
That sounds a bit... terroristy?
It’s made with rosewater and gunpowder. "
I'd suggest Google, but you may attract the interest of the security services or Sydney university |
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"Highly evocative smells that get your brain thinking.
Brylcreem = grandfather; old spice = father; isis perfume = first sexual encounter.
What smells make you instantly connect your brain to the past? "
Cow shit, reminds me of working at a dairy farm in my early teens |
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"Highly evocative smells that get your brain thinking.
Brylcreem = grandfather; old spice = father; isis perfume = first sexual encounter.
What smells make you instantly connect your brain to the past?
Cow shit, reminds me of working at a dairy farm in my early teens"
Ah, the romance |
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The closest I can describe it as is dettol, but it wasn't quite dettol. But the smell of the nurse's room in primary school you were sent to when sick and had to wait for your Mum/Dad to pick you up.
A freshly baked cake. Not a smell of yore - but I knew it was a good day when I pitched up at Nan's after school to that smell.
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It was an Egyptian Goddess, until House of Fraser & Islamic State infringed her copyright.
It is the part of the Thames which runs through Oxford "
Beat me to it!
I was going to suggest it was a rival to Cherwell. |
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It was an Egyptian Goddess, until House of Fraser & Islamic State infringed her copyright.
It is the part of the Thames which runs through Oxford
Beat me to it!
I was going to suggest it was a rival to Cherwell."
Odour de Oxfordshire |
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"A smell recently made me think of my mum. Maybe Lily of the Valley.
I was taken instantly back to my childhood.
I felt quite sad afterwards. "
Sometimes a smell makes you sad, but sometimes it reawakens a fun moment |
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"A smell recently made me think of my mum. Maybe Lily of the Valley.
I was taken instantly back to my childhood.
I felt quite sad afterwards.
Sometimes a smell makes you sad, but sometimes it reawakens a fun moment "
The smell of amusement arcades reminds me of being on holiday as a child. |
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"4711 perfume. One of the few things I can actually smell and always remi da me of my nana"
I remember that also! I think it was sold in Boots chemists in tiny bottles. It was part of war reparations from Germany - it is the original Eau de Cologne. |
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"The closest I can describe it as is dettol, but it wasn't quite dettol. But the smell of the nurse's room in primary school you were sent to when sick and had to wait for your Mum/Dad to pick you up.
A freshly baked cake. Not a smell of yore - but I knew it was a good day when I pitched up at Nan's after school to that smell.
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Was it TCP or iodine tincture? |
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"CK one will always transport me back to my early teens and those boys with curtains amd baggy jeans
Ahem.....I still wear CK one. I still love the smell
It was a great smell "
Was? Still is ( yeah, I'm stuck in 1998) |
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"The closest I can describe it as is dettol, but it wasn't quite dettol. But the smell of the nurse's room in primary school you were sent to when sick and had to wait for your Mum/Dad to pick you up.
A freshly baked cake. Not a smell of yore - but I knew it was a good day when I pitched up at Nan's after school to that smell.
Was it TCP or iodine tincture?"
Yeah exactly what I was going to say. |
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"The closest I can describe it as is dettol, but it wasn't quite dettol. But the smell of the nurse's room in primary school you were sent to when sick and had to wait for your Mum/Dad to pick you up.
A freshly baked cake. Not a smell of yore - but I knew it was a good day when I pitched up at Nan's after school to that smell.
Was it TCP or iodine tincture?"
Not TCP (though that's another throwback!), but quite possibly iodine...I'd need to smell it though!
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"The closest I can describe it as is dettol, but it wasn't quite dettol. But the smell of the nurse's room in primary school you were sent to when sick and had to wait for your Mum/Dad to pick you up.
A freshly baked cake. Not a smell of yore - but I knew it was a good day when I pitched up at Nan's after school to that smell.
Was it TCP or iodine tincture?
Not TCP (though that's another throwback!), but quite possibly iodine...I'd need to smell it though!
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Be the same disinfectant they used on the trains |
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"The closest I can describe it as is dettol, but it wasn't quite dettol. But the smell of the nurse's room in primary school you were sent to when sick and had to wait for your Mum/Dad to pick you up.
A freshly baked cake. Not a smell of yore - but I knew it was a good day when I pitched up at Nan's after school to that smell.
Was it TCP or iodine tincture?
Iodine tincture was a common treatment for cuts and grazes in schools. Stains your skin brown.
Not TCP (though that's another throwback!), but quite possibly iodine...I'd need to smell it though!
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"The closest I can describe it as is dettol, but it wasn't quite dettol. But the smell of the nurse's room in primary school you were sent to when sick and had to wait for your Mum/Dad to pick you up.
A freshly baked cake. Not a smell of yore - but I knew it was a good day when I pitched up at Nan's after school to that smell.
Was it TCP or iodine tincture?
Not TCP (though that's another throwback!), but quite possibly iodine...I'd need to smell it though!
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They used to use it many years ago,no household was without a bottle of this volcanic liquid, coz that's what it feels like a few dabs on a graze or cut and it feels like someone has put lava on you
AHHHHHHHHHH THE PAINNNN |
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"The closest I can describe it as is dettol, but it wasn't quite dettol. But the smell of the nurse's room in primary school you were sent to when sick and had to wait for your Mum/Dad to pick you up.
A freshly baked cake. Not a smell of yore - but I knew it was a good day when I pitched up at Nan's after school to that smell.
Was it TCP or iodine tincture?
Not TCP (though that's another throwback!), but quite possibly iodine...I'd need to smell it though!
Be the same disinfectant they used on the trains "
Not sure. Maybe. Don't remember smelling it on trains! But I was in primary school, so I'm not a reliable witness. |
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Nicotine and stale beer, walking past pubs
Sunflowers perfume,.ex girlfriend
Bleach and insulin, hospital stay when younger
Gunpowder from fireworks and smoke from bonfires- 70s Halloween
Beefy bovril, cheese toasties under the grill -Saturday evening teatime
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By *ucka39Man 8 weeks ago
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Coffee and bread
As coffee beans were ground down at the fruit and veg shop you could smell it far and wide, the bakery cake shop made fresh bread/buns to sell there shop
Chips shop mainly the oil |
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"Victory v's. God knows what was in them, but my gran gave me one every winters morning before school. That's the smell of her "
Licorice, menthol and chloroform. Yes, really. No idea why they are not still around. |
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"Victory v's. God knows what was in them, but my gran gave me one every winters morning before school. That's the smell of her
Licorice, menthol and chloroform. Yes, really. No idea why they are not still around."
OK....I ate them every winter going to school from 1977 to 1987 |
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Imperial Leather
Matey Bubble Bath
Creosote
Proper petrol
The smell the radiant bar heaters made when drying clothes
Calor Gas heaters
White Musk Perfume on the girls (still instant horn despite the new retro formula not being quite right)
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"Imperial Leather
Matey Bubble Bath
Creosote
Proper petrol
The smell the radiant bar heaters made when drying clothes
Calor Gas heaters
White Musk Perfume on the girls (still instant horn despite the new retro formula not being quite right)
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Don't forget New Super Matey lol |
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