smells

[filthiestfis]

Have any of you ever been somewhere in public when suddenly you recognise a smell that is familiar to you, from many years ago? There have been times when i have been reminded of classroom smell from 20 years ago.

[chitchat]

Yes i know what you mean. I occasionally get smell that reminds me of an accident that happened nearly 40 yrs ago when I was little girl. A girl fell off her bike into the path of an articulated wagon. Its that smell that you get when the roads have been dry for a long time and sometimes when it rains I smell it. But it always reminds me of that little girl.

[sunflower68]

Whenever I start back at the school I work in September the smell of the dinners brings it all 30 years back. It's funny it only seems to be on the first day back; after that I must get used to it again I guess.
Fresh-cut grass in April/May always reminds me of practicing the Maypole!

[laurence2]

i recently went to the Black country museum, and their were a few coal fires on the go {i love the smell of coal}

The other one i noticed not to long back, going into my mother-in-laws house, theirs always that OLD-FASHIONED smell in the older generations houses, you know, the antique type.

[Surreygirl30]

when i smell certain perfumes on people at work or in the street - i think of my mum who died 10 years ago.

Or when i smell cut grass i always think of the days when we all use to sit in the fields and get drunk. They were the days lol.

Many smells remind me of many things.

[CiderMonkey]

yes, i love the feeling you get when that happens as the memory is always so vivid. It'a not just the memory though, I can actaully feel what I was feeling at the time. It's amazing

[makemesmile]

I believe it's called a 'Proustian memory' : )

[sheenadoran]

Nice to hear it has actually got a name. One of my re-occouring "odour memories" takes me back to infants school, when we used to use a little old hall opposite the school for one lesson a week as the school hadn't got enough room. I am always reminded of this when I smell a newly varnished wood floor, but even so this was not a conventional smell. After school when we had used this hall for a lesson my mum used to say youv'e been in that hall again haven't you , as I must have ponged of it.

[demondragon]

I have that a lot! wether from a past bf,school,a friends house,or the house I used to live in.It gets me excited.I just love it

[filthiestfis]

Yes-certain perfumes you whiff at are a reminder of that girlfriend or even teacher or boss or work colleague.