General Chat

ooh Teresa, you bet me to it!! The smell from the old Bander printers. My hubby had some originals that you did the copies from and you could still smell the solvent on it. We were all secret "sniffers" in those days when they handed out those copies.

Tomato plants, I love the smell they always remind me of my grandad Sue:-)

Creosote does it for me. As soon as I get a whiff of it I am transported back into time when I was around 3 or 4 years old in my garden making mud pies. I guess dad must have creosoted the fence when I was busy 'cooking'.

We had a thread on the same subject some time ago...so I will put now what I put then..: Max Factor Creme Puff face powder (reminds me of my mum) Coal (reminds me of my Dad - a coalman, never get to smell it now!) Cherry Blossom shoe polish - schooldays - Sunday evening...and dad polishing our shoes for the next day! Dee (with a catch in her throat) X

Lesley, I loathe milk for the same reason. I still remember my Mam's perfume 'Apple Blossom'. Gold coloured in a little glass bottle with a red top. I wear a scent that reminds me of it when I'm missing Mam and want to feel her close.

Vosene shampoo reminds me of my first school. It was a boarding school and that was the shampoo they used. My grandparents used Imperial Leather soap and so that always makes me think of them. Mel

when i smell sand it reminds me of the fire buckets we had at school...

Weetabix made with warm milk - had a very distinctive smell and reminds me of my friend's mum who used to walk us to school when I was 6.

mine is the black tar thats put on roads i could stand all dayand smell tar,carbolic soap,evening in paris perfume reminds me of my mum. christine in edinburgh yes they still make those air fresheners with the hole in the middle i buy them at wilkinson's hardware store in LEEDS. SUE

Does anyone remember thier Christmas tinsel having a certain smell? If I smell that slightly dusty smell now, it takes me straight back to winter evenings putting up the Christmas tree, fighting with my brothers and sister over who put the reindeer at the top!

My Mam had a little push-up stick of pink eu-de-cologne cooling balm. She used to stroke it cross my head if I had a headache. Funny thing is I found one just like it yesterday in a village chemist--the scent brings back such lovely memories!

I was in a little antique store last week and the lady who owned the shop was showing a young boy an old mimeograph machine. Even though it wasn't operational, I swear I could still detect the smell of the paper with all that blue/purple ink . Took me right back to when I was at school.

Creosote - from a walk in the park when about 3 or 4. Virol - a bit like Marmite and was used in a Nursery I went to. I often remember the smell without it being present. Jacky:-)

The smell of the sea and fish & chips (grew up in Portsmouth), my Gran's 4711 Eau de Cologne, carbolic soap at school and greenhouse tomatoes!

the smell of dandelion and burdoch,now on sale in london,always reminds me of home in our little village in wales,as soon as my youngest sorts her life out,ime going back...i love it on the M4,where it says..welcome to wales..ime sure that sign was put there for me lol.....bryan.

Creosote, muck spreading, dairy disinfectant, mown grass, honeysuckle, sweet peas, mandarin oranges, wind off the beach, shalimar and lulu perfumes (my mum's favourite) and carnations (my gran's favourite). The smell of the books in the library, especially on hot days. The smell of candyfloss and diesel when the fun fair came to town every year on the gala day. At work, the special smell of hospital wards and intensive care units! And the best - the smell of bleach, cleaning day at home and the swimming baths - I still get butterflies when I smell it now. Regards Abigail

Mines is a strange one. My Dad was a house decorator. At primary school we had to cover our jotters with paper to protect them. Some kids had brown paper and some wallpaper. Dad always got us off cuts of this expensive plasticy wallpaper. It had a real strong smell. Our books might have had the poshest covering but they did pong. Another one was our bathroom, it always smelled of these wee round airfresheners, they were white with a hole in the middle, wonder if you still get them? Like Jean I also remember Granny's house smelling of Acdo on wash day from her big steel boiler, which she also used to make clootie dumpling and that smelled yummy!! Christine

Linseed oil and puttee (for putting in windows to the uninitiated) always reminds me of my Dad's shed. He used to give me bits of puttee to play with when he was working in there. Ann Glos

The smell of sardines on toast! - The only time that dad ever got us our tea was on a Saturday while mum was out shopping with my gran. It was always sardines on toast with the football results on the radio (we had to eat in silence!!!)

LAVENDER MY NAN USED IT, CARBOLIC SOAP AND COAL TAR MY MAIDEN AUNT WAS ALWAYS WASHING OUR HANDS AND FACES EVEN IF WE WERE CLEAN, HOME MADE FRIED CHIPS REMIND ME OF MY BEST FRIEND WE ALWAYS HAD EGG N CHIPS AT HER HOUSE. AND SOME GREAT TIMES. THE SMELL OF A NEW BABY, BRINGS BACK THOSE FIRST PRECIOUS MOMENTS OF YOUR OWN CHILDREN. LOL SANDRA