Childhood smells

[Snadger]

The heady aroma of Elderflowers........they are just coming into flower round here.

My Gran used to make gallons upon gallons of what she used to call elderflower champagne but was really cloudy lemonade tasting of elderflowers!
She used a huge round white porcelain bath thingy to make it in and the whole house smelled of elderflowers!

[geoff]

My Dad was a builder, and when I went to help him, or take his flask at dinnertime there would be a misture of smells - paint, wet plaster, stale cigarette smoke, linseed oil, wood shavings

A few years later when I was a student in the early 1970s there was a perfume which was almost standard issue for female students; Xanadu, I think it came in a purple bottle (well it would, wouldn't it, being 1971)

[digthatchick]

Jasmine - outside our back door when I was about 8 ( Circa 1950's)

[Two_Sheds]

I can't play ... I lost my sense of smell in '96 (most of it ... I can still smell hot chips)

[Alice]

Lupins - that smell just takes me to my childhood garden. I'll always grow them.

[smallblueplanet]

Palma (sp?) violets - my Mum always had them in her handbag.

[tootles]

Palma (sp?) violets - my Mum always had them in her handbag.

oh yes. I had an epiphany last summer, there was a patch of violets in the woods where I was walking, they smelt exactly the same. I had always thought the smell was chemical. It wasn't and I was so happy to find out!

[Nicos]

I used to get really car sick as a kid ( only OKish now cos I sit in the front or drive)..and my mom used to give my Opal mints- spearmint flavour.
Even to this day I can't stand the smell of spearmint ( even toothpaste) as it makes me feel a bit queasy!!

Izal medicated eh??...remember it well, smell and lack of absorbancy

Bonfires- my father

cough sweets- I think they were Halls- remind me of walking to school in the winter

TCP (and the orange/'brown material elastoplast plasters)- used to get rubbed on me as I was a bit of a tomboy and always had scratches/cuts on my arms and legs.

Steamed apple sponge pudding - my grannies kitchen

[NOG]

Pear drops that smeled of asatone

[Lottieval]

Burnt milk - when I was at infant school on the coast of Suffolk the classroom was heated by a big coke stove at the front of the room, when we had a bad winter and the little 1/3pint milk bottles froze up they were stood on the top of the stove to thaw and the milk ran down and sizzled with that awful smell you get when the milk boils over. Makes me sound ancient doesn't it!! Can you imagine that happening now H&S would go mad!

[ginger ninger]

Childhood smells.

Cherry tunes....always reminds me of my mum, she never went anywhere with out them, sadly she died in 1991. M&S magnolia bubble bath always reminds me of 'GENESIS' " AND THEN THERE WERE THREE" album, i used to lay in the bath and listen to it...i still like that album.

[Lemon]

Pears Soap - the oval brown almost clear soap. If we went away on school trips (for a week) mum would buy a bar to put in our toiletries bag. No idea why Pears as we used Lux at home.

[lainey lou]

Honeysuckle - we had it growing round the back door.
Apple soap - reminds me of the apple smelling and shaped soap Mum bought for me when I had to go into hospital aged 5!

[Flummery]

And nasty smells. A certain washing powder that you used to soak things with - in the olden days - and I used it until I was pregnant with no. 1. It's one of those smells that instantly transports me back to the awful nausea of morning sickness. Haven't been able to use it since! Chaps won't understand!

[lainey lou]

And nasty smells. A certain washing powder that you used to soak things with - in the olden days - and I used it until I was pregnant with no. 1. It's one of those smells that instantly transports me back to the awful nausea of morning sickness. Haven't been able to use it since! Chaps won't understand!

Oh yes! Morning Sickness smells!
I bought an expensive bottle of perfume shortly before I fell pregnant -Issey Miyake. I just loved it, till the morning sickness started. 10 years on the smell of it still makes me want to heave!