Favourite smells as a child

[spuggybridge]

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Used to love the smell of fire lighters.

[Pussywillow]

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The smell of wild roses as you walked down Plough lane in Wokingham, nr Reading, Berks. Long gone now with a housing estate on it now.

As someone said Steam trains/stations.

The smell of cigarettes in the cinema

Old boys smoking pipes.

[staffslad]

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Tarmac has been mentioned previously, but I remember being told to breathe in deeply when passing newly laid Tarmac as it was good for your lungs.

[Richard1978]

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Tarmac has been mentioned previously, but I remember being told to breathe in deeply when passing newly laid Tarmac as it was good for your lungs.

I remember one of my teachers mentioning that.

[staffslad]

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I will be surprised if breathing in Tarmac fumes is still advice teachers give out.

The smell of chlorine that hit you as soon as you went into the swimming baths on school swimming trips.

[George 1978]

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As we are near Christmas, cinnamon always reminds me of Christmas time.

[victorbrunswick]

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The sort of popcorn and floor wax smell of Woolworth's

[darren]

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Yes thats one smell i like as well as shoe polish.

Teachers really said it was a good thing to sniff.
Why was it considered a good thing to breathe in.

i will be surprised if breathing in tarmac fumes is still advice teachers give out.

The smell of chlorine that hit you as soon as you went into the swimming baths on school swimming trips.

[Twocky61]

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Tetrachloride

As found in dry cleaning machines in your local laundrette

[Richard1978]

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One of my cousins used to think the exhaust of my Uncle's car smelt like sweets, which I thought was weird.

I've heard leaded petrol fumes used to had a sweetish smell.

[Trickyvee]

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One of my cousins used to think the exhaust of my Uncle's car smelt like sweets, which I thought was weird.

I've heard leaded petrol fumes used to had a sweetish smell.

Probably why I thought leaded petrol smelled like cream cakes when I was young!

Other smells, while not necessarily favourites, certainly take me back to childhood if I catch a whiff of them now. Old linoleum reminds me of so many old buildings, that strong PVC smell reminds me of my Wendy house, garden fires, the print of catalogue pages, and a mix of freshly chopped raw vegetables remind me of my mam preparing meals.

[darren]

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Another would be oil based paints as well as non oil based paint.

smell of a room after its been painted for a few days its lovely.

[zabadak]

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The dust on the valves on my mum's radiogram when it was warming up - that one still gets me!

[staffslad]

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The dust on the valves on my mum's radiogram when it was warming up - that one still gets me!

Yes, but in my case it was the valves in our old telly. I don't think we had a fully transistorised one until about 1980.

[marc]

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Back in the 1970s, a man living near my grandmother's house had a sporty type of motorcycle. It may have been a Norton. when he rode it past us, there seemed to be a nice smell from the exhaust. Years later c.1996, I was at Brooklands Relived. The same smell hung in the air has motorcycles were ridden up the old test hill. I found out it was Castrol R oil mixed in with the petrol.