Favourite smells as a child

[jimexe]

Apologies if a thread has already been started on this...

I remember even to this day certain smells from my childhood, some were good some not so good.

Creosote! I LOVED this smell!!! As kids we loved it when somebody painted their fence! We would spend hours just sniffing it lol

Tarmac
Freshly cut grass
Christmas decorations (they had a certain musty smell)
Airfix glue
Car exhaust fumes
Kays catalogue (sniffing the pages of a new catalogue)

[amethyst]

Re: Favourite smells as a child

Mums home made cakes,cooking
Roses in the garden

[Richard1978]

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My Dad used to take my & brother to places like preserved railways, that always had a smell of machine oil & burning coal.

Fairs always seemed to smell of hot sugar & frying onions.

My Gran's caravan used to smell of wood & the fluid for the chemical toilet, which was strangely pleasant.

[amethyst]

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Home made bread

[darren]

Re: Favourite smells as a child

And grilling soda ,wheaten farls by the fire with one of them forks and that combined with the smell of the butter.

home made bread

[zabadak]

Re: Favourite smells as a child

Apologies if a thread has already been started on this...

I remember even to this day certain smells from my childhood, some were good some not so good.

Creosote! I LOVED this smell!!! As kids we loved it when somebody painted their fence! We would spend hours just sniffing it lol

Tarmac
Freshly cut grass
Christmas decorations (they had a certain musty smell)
Airfix glue
Car exhaust fumes
Kays catalogue (sniffing the pages of a new catalogue)

Which pages?

[zabadak]

Re: Favourite smells as a child

I still love the smell of dust on the valves of an old record player warming up. So evocative!

[jimexe]

Re: Favourite smells as a child

Which pages?

Well........

[Nik_Barbour]

Re: Favourite smells as a child

Smell of a real coal fire (even when it's not lit) in a house. You get a faint sooty smell.

Or the smell of a pipe smoker. My dad used to smoke one till some point in the 80s. Always smelled comforting somehow.
Occasionally walking around places you'll suddenly get a whiff, and spot a rare pipe smoker some place. Takes me right back as soon as I smell it.

[big kid]

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the smell of new trainers / shoes.

[Richard1978]

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New furniture & carpets have an odd slightly chemical smell, but somehow it makes your home feel refreshed.

[marc]

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The smell of beer when passing the pubs and clubs when I was quite young.
The smell of a car interior during the 1970s. Don't ask me why.....

[amethyst]

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Coal Fires

[DSCOMAN]

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some good ones in thread...I will add
Hospitals....when u went for stitches, that Antiseptic smell..../..and shops like Timothy Whites a mixture of disinfectant paraffin and various other chemicals and brushes.... / The Ice Cream van....creamy and diesel smell, very weird .... / and yes pipe smoke/cigar smoke...../ and I spent the first few weeks after getting new football boots just sniffing them or the box ;-)....ODD CHILD....I also had to touch and sniff the goods when out in any shops

[amethyst]

Re: Favourite smells as a child

Liquorice