Topic: Memorable/favorite smells

[mishca09]

What scents or smells trigger memories or happy moments.


One smell for me would be the scent of baking beard it always reminds of the local bakery we used to visit in the morning before going off to school.

My fav. Cousins perfume I don't remember the name of it but it's the only one she would wear and it always makes me think of her. When some stranger walks by and is wearing the exact same scent.

When I was kid I actually liked the smell of gasoline lol

 

[8ullfrog]

Oh dear god, my mom opened some scent product today that smelled like dryer sheets.

I have horrible asthma, but I tend to manage it. One of the few things that I can not handle is that dryer sheet smell.

I am damn lucky I keep my inhaler handy.

Oh, and instant karma. Mom got the scent oil on her arm, and it thoroughly disgusted her.

I really am like the canary. I can smell the paraffin under the delightful scents in candles. It's made me vomit in the past (Pomegranate).

I like the smell of a good steak, a fine bourbon, or an ocean breeze. Artificial scents can get the golly out.

Blood smell just reminds me things are bad again. And that's really disturbing. When I should be thinking "I NEED TO GET THE golly OUT OF HERE!" instead I'm thinking "golly, this is familiar."

[smokester]

The smell of babies triggers "involuntary memory" for me. I'm never sure whether the feeling is scary or the sense of longing.  Either way it rarely fails to take me back a few years.

[xtopave]

There's a particular coconut sunblock smell that not only transports me back to my childhood but actually makes me "feel" like a child again for a few seconds. Does this make sense to someone?
Then there are the smells I used to like and started to hate when I got pregnant. There's an air freshener smell that has became actually revolting since then.

[brickbatz]

Memorable but not a favorite, I had to bury a dead snake that had been under the Florida sun. Holding my breath didn't help much.

[mishca09]

that is really gross. I've been lucky that closest I've to a dead animal was driving by road kill.

There's a particular coconut sunblock smell that not only transports me back to my childhood but actually makes me "feel" like a child again for a few seconds. Does this make sense to someone?

yes although for me it happens in my minds eye and its like a movie.

[tarascon]

Sometimes my mom sends me new T-shirts in the mail. Shirts which she washes before mailing. I like to stick my nose into these shirts and get a whiff of my mom's house.
Not exactly a Proustian moment but pretty close.

[goldshirt*9]

peaches.
Smell of brings back trips to the south of France passing boxes and boxes of fresh peaches.
I dont even like the taste of them but love the smell

[smokester]

I stopped eating meat in 91 but the smell of a bacon sarnie can still bring me to my knees.

[townie2]

two smells take me back, one is the first beach day of the Summer, the smell of the fresh salty air takes me back to childhood days at the beach, and the smell of fresh donuts, when i was a kid my Grandmother made fresh yeast donuts with cinnamon sugar every Sunday when i was there and gave me a big bag of them to take home.

[xtopave]

when i was a kid my Grandmother made fresh yeast donuts with cinnamon sugar every Sunday when i was there and gave me a big bag of them to take home.

Ooh, grandmothers' meals always smell and taste better than anyone's!

[8ullfrog]

I vaguely recall a song by the vandals with the line "these are a few of my favorite smells" but youtube fails me.

[smokester]

You never met my grandmother, obviously.

Gaia?

[xtopave]

You never met my grandmother, obviously.

Now that I think about it, the closest my sister's grandchildren will be of homemade cooking is frozen pizza.

[mishca09]

they still have aunties cooking

[smokester]

Barons hot sauce is St Lucia in a bottle to my nose. That's why I brought back 4 litres last August.

Not sure it will last a year around here though.

[tarascon]

Spring mornings