Smells from your childhood ?

[ArthurBottlesworth]

Forgotten smell of caps in toy guns, thanks for that.....

 

I remember foot n mouth in 60's too

Came back when I was assessor

Combine drove over where they buried remains

Soil was soft and combine took "big bite" of earth that did it no good at all

[Hanser]

Primary school recall from the smell of Jeyes Fluid - it was used to swill out the outside bogs.

[H-A]

Castrol R, a smell you never forget.

 

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[Dan Curtis]

Pigs, chickens and cold engine diesel smoke. I still love the smell of a shed filled with diesel smoke on a cold morning.

 

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Edited June 11, 2014 by Dan Curtis

[TGB]

Fenegan, (a liquid mixture for travel sickness). The smell was awful and the taste was worse. To this day, I don't know which made me vomit more, the travelling or the mixture which was suppose to prevent it.

 

The aroma of vaporised teeth as they were drilled.

 

Novocain, it also has a distinctive taste.

 

Leather in my father's cars; liked the cars but have never liked the smell of leather. It makes me nauseous.

 

Tantalised timber - it was years later that I found out why all old castles & abbeys smelled the same.

 

Sulphur, as sulphuric acid vapour either escaped or was pumped from the annealing plant.

 

Coal smoke.

 

3in1 oil - if you had a bicycle and fixed it yourself, you knew the smell.

 

Slag heaps and coal seams burning deep underground.

Edited June 11, 2014 by TGB

[Python]

Oddly the smell of a rotten badger I found...... 24 years later and I can still taste it in the back of my mouth

 

 

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[Matthew Storrs]

Geraniums and tomato plants in my Dad's greenhouse. Whenever I go over there now and he wants to show me something he has grown, the smell takes me right back to being a kid again. My Dad is now 81 and I am nearly 44.

 

Wow, I thought you were in your 30s when I met you- must be them homegrown tomatoes:biggrin:

[Matthew Storrs]

Freshly made hay, buttercups, newly dug soil and diesel all do good things for me.

[felixthelogchopper]

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Wow, I thought you were in your 30s when I met you- must be them homegrown tomatoes:biggrin:

 

Well, that and the virgin sacrifices. Quite a challenge given my home county.

[Agi-Smash]

I wasn't about in the 60,s but remember the last bout of foot and mouth. I had to go and fix a tele handler that had been pushing up the funeral pyres. My god did it stink. Didn't bother taking overalls back for washing, just chucked them in the bucket and they got burned too. Never forget that smell. Most annoying part is that if you would have cooked the meat it would have killed the disease.

 

Jeyes fluid. Every time you had to go to a farm for a break down you had to scrub and disinfect the van, and again on the way out.