Smells from your childhood ?

[Ian Leach]

In no particular order, death .

 

Don't envy your childhood mate:laugh1:

 

Put it this way you never forget the smell.

 

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[WeeDee]

Jeyes Fluid

[eggsarascal]

Can you remember the smell of soot as you climbed up and down the chimneys mate?

 

 

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Nah, ya couldn't smell the soot, for the smell of coal dust.

[Marc Lewis]

Yeah my uncles old rover 3.5 had proper smelling leather seats early 80s

 

Yeah that with the old traffic light (amber) car freshener you used to get.

[SteveA]

The milk powder for new born calves. Best smell in the world

 

Funny, I completely forgot about that smell until you mentioned it... you're right, that is an amazing smell.

[peatff]

Puppy breath, before they were weaned and caps on a paper roll like someone else remembered when playing cowboys. Steam trains on the line down the road from us and the tunnel turrets through the town when the smoke used to billow out as the trains went underneath us.

[Agi-Smash]

Steam engines

My family have had a few, hot oil, soot, fire ace.

Cow pooh, when they first go out on fresh grass.

 

What do you give a cow thats been out on fresh grass?

Loads of room rearward.

[Stephen Blair]

Turtle wax!

 

 

 

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[jomoco]

I liked the smell of SoCal native chaparral, mostly Sumac bushes, that my brother and I took great satisfaction from beating into the ground in splinters with baseball bats!

 

When you're ten or twelve years old you need an outlet to vent your frustrations on!

 

Perfectly natural really!

 

These days it's Ritalin enforced conformity and homogeneity for each child's age group.

 

No wonder I grew up to be a tree murderer for hire!

 

Jomoco:biggrin:

[Peasgood]

In no particular order, death .

The most lingering smell from my childhood is the smell of cattle on a funeral pyre of railway sleepers in the foot and mouth epidemic of the 60's.

I was just a kid, although my family were farmers we grew stuff we didn't have animals as such.

I never really realised just how much of an effect it had on me until the more recent outbreak. When they announced on the news that foot and mouth had come back I just burst into tears.

From my bedroom window in the 60's I could see next door burning their cattle. Everywhere you went there was just clouds of smoke as the railway sleepers burnt. That smell of burning hair/flesh and creosote. Nasty!

Edited June 10, 2014 by Peasgood