Smells = Association

[carelesschucca]

Standing in the teabay in work today I noticed a bottle of White Musk had a wee sniff and was immediately transported back to being 18 & being in Kilmarnock with a lovely young lady :)

It started a discussion on how smells evoke strong memories, so what aromas bring back memories for you guys?

[maviczap]

Tomatoes

A quick sniff reminds me of my Grandfathers greenhouse, happy days.

I prefer the smell of 'White Linen' that's the smell of a few happy Saturday nights :smt054

[Specialone]

Aniseed, reminds me of my best mates 18th party, I drank way too much of it :drink::smt030:oops::puker:

[Owenski]

Ha! Yorkies veggie fat van... always makes me want fish and chips when ever he's arriving/leaving.

Not so much a memory associated with it but my mood genuinely improves when I smell chopped timber.

[SvNewbie]

Stripper perfume. 'nuff said.

[Trev B]

The smell of fresh trodden grass in a large marquee in summer,takes me back 50+ years to endless summer days!!!

[Trev B]

Another 1 ,Castrol R,the true aftershave of 2 strokers!!!

[davepreston]

super noodles
takes e me straight back to Iraq

[Geodude]

Kouros aftershave = 19 year old babe magnet (me, i know its hard to beleive) coated in the stuff in 80's ibiza :)

[carelesschucca]

Kouros aftershave = 19 year old babe magnet (me, i know its hard to beleive) coated in the stuff in 80's ibiza :)
60% of the time it worked every time ;)

[Geodude]

Haha yeah chucca that and the cheap booze :)

[carelesschucca]

Diamond White was always a good sign.

another smell that takes me further back is the smell of tarmac being laid. I'm back too 4 years old and annoying the hell out of the guys working out side my parents house.

[tigersaw]

Grandads shed was no ordinary shed. For a start it was a stripped out railway carriage in a 30's terrace suburban garden. It had tools of every shape and size, a lathe; pillar drill and old radio sets, mice and spiders. It was out of a movie.
The smell of Swarfega can transport me 50 years into the black and white days in a flash.

[Specialone]

Kouros aftershave = 19 year old babe magnet (me, i know its hard to beleive) coated in the stuff in 80's ibiza :)

60% of the time it worked every time ;)

It wasn't qudos it was sex panther and it's still illegal in 9 countries :)

[TheRuffellator]

The smell of a conifers just after its rained, reminds me of working with a tree surgery firm and being out in the forests.. Bliss!

[punyXpress]

The smell of fresh trodden grass in a large marquee in summer,takes me back 50+ years to endless summer days!!!

Another 1 ,Castrol R,the true aftershave of 2 strokers!!!

Even better - put R in the lawn mower & get the best of both worlds.
. . or go grass tracking?

[Bibio]

creosote = South Africa.

[minimorecambe]

When it rains on a warm day, reminds me of America

[dizzyblonde]

There's a smell that can only be found in a continental kitchen, be it here or abroad.

It's like the smell of pea and ham soup and jam making, with a hint of vinegar and vinyl table cloth....with the occasional whiff of tomatoes straight from a greenhouse.

It's not often I come across this indescribable smell, because these days houses don't have a pantry and folk aren't so adventurous with cooking.
Takes me back to my grandparents house when we were kids.


I intend to replicate this in my next home :-D

[Littlepeahead]

Wrights Coal Tar soap reminds me of my granddad as it's what he used to wash his hands after we'd been out in the garden when I was a child.

The hotel lobby in Chiang Mai we always stay in has a really distinctive pleasant smell that as soon as I get there makes my body and brain slip into holiday mode.

Hugo Boss In Motion aftershave is worn by someone I'm very fond of and if ever I smell it I think of him and smile.

Some days at work we get a mixture of the pastry chef baking fresh scones for afternoon tea and the ground staff mowing the outfield - now if that isn't the smell of long summer days I don't know what is.

[aaron020873]

The smell of home made fresh baked bread takes me back to my teenage years when i went to my mates house and his mum was always baking. She used to always make one loaf for everyone to pick at and it always looked like a flock of birds had been attacking it.

[NTECUK]

Odd thing Thursday as we left for the crematorium.
I could have sworn I smellt. , Golden Virginia my grandads pipe tobacco.
Strange days but probably the emotions of the day influences you?

[maviczap]

Odd thing Thursday as we left for the crematorium.
I could have sworn I smellt golden vagina, that's my grandads pipe tobacco.
Strange days but probably the emotions of the day influences you?

I tell ya, your Grandad was a lucky fellow smoking Golden Vagina ;)

[Specialone]

I tell ya, your Grandad was a lucky fellow smoking Golden Vagina ;)

Lol, hope it was as good as it sounds :-k

[NTECUK]

Dam you auto correct lol
Both he and dad would are probably laughing at that.

[maviczap]

Almost as good as spellcheck altering an email I sent, changing forensic to foreskin :smt043

[STRAMASHER]

Vinegar = hairwash

[Fruity-ya-ya]

Honeysuckle reminds me of being a nipper on the back garden of the first house i lived in.

[The Idle Biker]

Good post..! There's loads for me, smell is such a strong sense and triggers many memories.

1: Sun baked concrete on the estate I grew up on, long hot summers, then the rain falling on the concrete.
2: Cut grass, again in summer
3: Old spice after shave left lingering in the bathroom from when my Dad used to leave for work before we got up.
4: Stale beer early morning in old fashioned proper pubs when they opened for business at 11.
5: 2 stroke from racing RD350LC when I believed I could be a racer :-p
6: Marigolds (plants) from playing in the parks in London when I was a kid before plant beds used to get vandalised.
7: Meat pies, larger, trains, from travelling around the country watching football.
8: My kids as babies
9: Boxing Gyms
10: The sweet smell of victory, haven't smelt that for a bit :-/

[SIII]

My 3 favourite smells that transport me back are;-

New trainers - takes me back to being 16 again and opening box on latest pair of Adidas Jeans, SL76's etc:smt054

Fern's - spent all my childhood playing soldiers in the woods at the back of our estate.:rambo:

Damp - my Papa's shed, many happy hours playing in there.:p