Smells From Childhood

[albaqwerty]

A few pals dropped round the other evening and somehow we ended up chatting about what smells/scents/aromas we remember from childhood.

We all agreed the aroma of home baking/cooking, and stinky stuff for cleaning.

Vinegar and water, duraglit/brasso and ammonia.
However none of us could remember what it was used for !

Any childhood memories of smells?

[Peter Pedant]

the smell bits of the brain are now concerned with memory and the two are therefore strongly linked (hippocampus)

// Cut grass,// - blimey I was reading a book that I had last read in Jul 1964 and could hear the put-put of the lawn-mower and smell of cut grass of the lawn that was being cut as I read - - weird

[Cloverjo]

TCP.
My granny's pants boiling in a massive pan.

[gness]

The peat fire and granny's soda bread baking....and because it sometimes rains in Ireland the smell of the wet thatch on the roof seeping down into the bedroom.....x

[maggiebee]

Lived close to a garage growing up and loved the smell of petrol when the tanks were being filled.

[zebo]

Mamyalynne, no, don't recall that company. I also remember loving the smell of the Fish Market, before it became a glorified frozen food and chicken place, most people hated it!

[gness]

Well I can't decide between Clover's granny's pants or Maggies petrol for the oddest memory smell..... :-)

[Arksided]

Scented erasers whilst at school.

[david small]

Old dusty linoleum from grans house. Germoline, hated it. Resin from chopping logs for firewood. Cabbage cooking on a Sunday lunchtime.