what 3 smells remind you of childhood?

[zzxxee]

mine are
1............. carbolic soap my nan used this for everything !!!!!!!!!
2........ Lily of the valley perfume by yardley .. Yep nan again
3.......Hair gel i used to get through tons of this as a teenager in the 80s lol

[stokemaveric]

nivea cream [my nan used to rub it on my face to protect me from the winter winds]..the aroma of mum cooking sunday dinners...and the smell of dust at my dads pottery works....

[TheOtherHalf]

Definitely carbolic soap. It was the only soap we had and we had to wash our hair with, never heard of shampoo.

Oranges in our stocking at christmas, was the only time we got them

Avon honeysuckle perfumes and soap. I can remember going to stay with my older sister and she used these and I thought how sickly smelling they were

Also, the nearby farmyard where our Dad took us all for drive every Sunday morning in an Atlas Van (remember those ?)to collect a big bag of spuds before mum could do Sunday lunch

Happy days eh ?

[dnaan]

mothballs
smoke
cow dung odour from local farmers clothes

[mazie]

we used to go to the local Lido every day in the summer and the smell of Privet flowers always brings back such great memories.

Coal Fires
Vinyl Records
Home made Bread ( My Nanna)

[benny3008]

Cedarwood (the smell of the old shed!)
peanut butter. Mmmm :-)
freshly cut grass (obvious one really)

[Barmaid]

freshly cut straw
horse Sugar
log fire

[madmaggot]

Engineering suds; my dad's work coat used to hang in the outside loo and that is what it smelt of.
Washing; my mum always seemed to have loads of washing to do probably because of having 5 kids and living near a railway line (soot from trains)!
Leather from later on, tack room was my preferred getaway.

[society]

Johnson's baby powder
Lifebouy soap
Aroma of bread baking

[crapmemory]

1.Open coal fire.
2.Fishermans Friends(nan)
3.Steam trains.

[zzxxee]

dog poo baked in the sun !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so it turned white

nobody picked up afer their dog in the 80s lol

[pusskin]

aroma from my lovely mums bread pudding + roast dinners. she passed in 1996, bless her. And the smell of the wooded forest and under growth, bring tears to my eyes of my lovely sister and I while at a convalescent years ago , when we were kids. That smell lingers every time I go on our lovely long walks in the countryside, and catches me out every time i get a wiff of it. There's too many smells to mention really.

[zzxxee]

my nans front room used to smell of beeswax polish
i use it sometimes its a lovely smell !!

[carmalee]

Je Rivien (?) perfume - Old Spice - sweaty ponies - linseed cooking on the tack room stove.

[horseshoes]

1 Lily of the Valley soap
2 Oil (from all the motorbike bits in the shed, the kitchen, the garden and anywhere else there was a space to put them)
3 Something called gunk (something used to clean off the motorbike oil I think)

[zzxxee]

and horrible nit lotion that took your breath away well it did mine when i caught them when i was around 6 or seven !!!!!!!!!!! and it took hours and hours to dry !!!

[curvybird]

Home made mint sauce, Brylcreem, and purple hair lacquer in a plastic squishy bottle

[lcg]

1...lily of the valley (my nan used soap, perfume etc. of this scent)
2...petrol (my dad used to take us to bike/car/steam shows)
3...vicks vaporub (smothered in it when unwell with a cold!)

[zzxxee]

vesta currys !!!!!!