FabSwingers.com forum: What scent immediately takes you back to your childhood

By *usman 199 OP Man
over a year ago

Stockport

Happy Thursday evening everyone .

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Stale beer and cigarettes.

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By *ocksareoffMan
over a year ago

Out n About

Four star petrol and two stroke oil.

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By *aomilatteCouple
over a year ago

Midlands

Cigars, smokers had them as a treat.

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By *ingdongandBelleCouple
over a year ago

Bishops Strortford

Coal Tar Soap X

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

The smell of chalk, play doh and plasticine.

Happy memories

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By *nightsoftheCoffeeTableCouple
over a year ago

Leeds

Impulse O2 body spray takes me straight back to my teens

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Old Holborn pipe tobacco reminds me of my Grandad

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The smell of disappointment

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By *aka12345Couple
over a year ago

close by

Old spice takes me back to my stepdad xx mrs k xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Coal Tar Soap X"

God damn yes, we had this then imperial leather if we had guests.

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By *aturefun63Man
over a year ago

Belper

Old spice

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

CK one when it first came out. Everyone was wearing it I the early 90s

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By *eus n EuropaCouple
over a year ago

Derby

Castrol R

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By *tarflyLouWoman
over a year ago

Preston

We stayed at a hotel at the weekend and the shampoo smelt like a doll I had as a child, it’s strange how some smells take you straight to a memory

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By *-RealMan
over a year ago

South Lincs

Calor gas smell (childhood camping holiday)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Johhnys onion rings

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"CK one when it first came out. Everyone was wearing it I the early 90s "

I still do

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"CK one when it first came out. Everyone was wearing it I the early 90s

I still do

I smelt it at as club recently. Took me back to the days of Rage against the machine

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By *ong-leggedblondWoman
over a year ago

Next Door

"CK one when it first came out. Everyone was wearing it I the early 90s

I still do

Lots still wear joop

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By *he Artful TodgerMan
over a year ago

Yorkshire but travel

Brut

And maybe Davidoff Cool Water

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By *he Artful TodgerMan
over a year ago

Yorkshire but travel

"CK one when it first came out. Everyone was wearing it I the early 90s

I still do

Lots still wear joop"

Me, love my Joop…

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Playdough and powder paint

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Vosene shampoo

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By *oan of DArcCouple
over a year ago

Glasgow

Lily of the Valley

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By *ichaelJ1986Man
over a year ago

Hertfordshire

The smell of Dettol and watching the the water turn white when you add it. Bath time memories with my grand parents

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

manure.my great uncle had a farm next door to where i lived with my mam nan and brother.you could always smell that coming from the farm.

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By *ocksareoffMan
over a year ago

Out n About

TCP and gripe water.

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By *lderflowerappleWoman
over a year ago

Basingstoke

"manure.my great uncle had a farm next door to where i lived with my mam nan and brother.you could always smell that coming from the farm."

Manure for me too, or as my mum always used to call it 'country smells'. My grandfather managed a farm and we always seemed to managed to visit just as they were doing the muck spreading. Windows quickly wound up, but never before that stench got stuck in the nostrils for hours!

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By *idewillyMan
over a year ago

ellesmere port

Virol....most of you wont of heard of it but it was a big thing for health in its day id love a spoon of it just to try again

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By *ools and the brainCouple
over a year ago

couple, us we him her.

Insecticide.

I kid you not, where I lived part of my childhood there was a large warehouse which stored them and the helicopter would come and fill up,fly off and spray the Fields.

Amazingly we used to go and splosh around in what we called "the rainbow puddles"

Different chemicals all mixed up on the floor.

Now when I smell "that" smell, anyone who has smelled it knows the acrid, acidic smell that you never forget.

Takes me back to the 70's playing with our 5 legged flying dog.

Ok I made the last bit up.

It had four legs.

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By *aul DeUther-OneMan
over a year ago

Seaside Sussex

Before photocopying there were banda sheets. After we got our copy of the handout everything would stop for a couple of minutes while we huffed the fumes from the print.

That....

and Wimpy burger restaurants

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Carbolic soap from care home oh

Getting the shit kicked out of me every day till I was old enough to defend myself

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mum had a Lemon geranium in the bathroom and I hated it, hate them still. Horrible smelly plants. On the other hand Dad liked Tenants lager, & mum liked Advocaat & lemonade. They weren’t drinkers, just the odd one in a blue moon. Also seeing Dad on Nationwide at 6pm, he was the chairman of the Post Office so was on the TV occasionally.

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By *moothshaftMan
over a year ago

Coventry

The smell of old leather seats in an old car.

My dad had a 1950's Vauxhall Wyvern, many happy memories of journeys to the seaside and to Hereford.

I always stick my head inside the window of classic cars!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Shite.

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By *innamon!Woman
over a year ago

no matter

Old spice .. step father

Brut and youth dew .. when I was just starting to go out to dances .

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By *arakiss12TV/TS
over a year ago

Bedford

Palma Violets and iced gems.

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By *issmorganWoman
over a year ago

Calderdale innit

Pears soap that my mum used

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By *uke olovingmanMan
over a year ago

Gravesend

"Vosene shampoo"

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

The smell of pig manure which has a very high content of ammonia: a very distinctive odour!

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By *ndauntedMan
over a year ago

wilts

Wet dog

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Radox & it making the bath water green

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The smell of My Little Pony toys. I don't know why they've got a really distinctive smell.

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By *rNice.Man
over a year ago

scunthorpe

Hanging outside the chipshop ..

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Oh and Rimmel face powder reminds me of my nana.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jeyes fluid.

No idea what it did but the potting shed wreaked of the stuff.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Malt. There was a brewery down the road.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The smell of the seaside (the salty air)

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By *avid 50Man
over a year ago

kendal

Cigar smoke a past farm worker always arrived late on Christmas Eve and chatted into the night with my parents and he stayed for two days continually smoking cigars the smell of cigars always reminds me of Christmas in a happy way

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By *reat me rightWoman
over a year ago

Rotherham

My nana perfume 4711. Which is very odd as I don't have a sense of smell - but I'll always get that smell (and humbugs and strawberries)

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By *oobyman4lifeMan
over a year ago

near chelmsford

Honeysuckle, reminds me of camping holiday as a little kid

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By *imi_RougeWoman
over a year ago

Portsmouth

Tomatoes in a greenhouse

Coal fires

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lynx, all the flavours, java, tempest, Africa.

I think we might have caused more damage to the ozone layer with that stuff after 5th period cross country than post war industrialisation.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Imperial Leather soap

Cows

Sheep

Coal fires

Those indoor calor gas heater things (we had no central heating)

Grass clippings compost

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

When I burnt down the neighbour’s shed

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By * U mineMan
over a year ago

Fun

Milk, free as well.

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury

The smell of horses

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I think it has been discontinued but the original Dior Poison. Reminds me of my first kiss because she was wearing it. It was a newly launched scent and had a distinctive smell. I still remember the smell simply by thinking of it. She smelt heavenly....oh and the kiss was good too.

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By *ictoria_1976TV/TS
over a year ago

Newquay

Lifebouy soap

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Calvin Klein Obsession

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By *orthwhile27Man
over a year ago

dark side of the moon

Cool water in late 80's for me

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By *ucka39Man
over a year ago

Newcastle

Old spice,insignia freshly baking bread, coffee grounds getting grinded the vegetable store used to grind the beans if the customer preferred the smell was traveling in the air

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Shite."
I've heard your shites smelt like roses

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By *entleman JayMan
over a year ago

Wakefield

Pears soap. My auntie had it. She was posh. We were poor. We used to visit her bathroom in awe.

I now buy Pears soap. It’s my way of telling myself I’ve done ok in life. Lol.

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By *i_guy_sloughMan
over a year ago

Langley

Creosote just immediately makes me remember childhood

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Happy Thursday evening everyone .

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Urine, when I used to pee the bed, fortunately I now no longer do that

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Strong cigarette smoke from visiting the grandparents. I used to leave their houses with stinging eyes.

Creosote. It was my job as a kid to creosote the fences each year. Hated it but it got me a quod for sweets ??

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By *B69Woman
over a year ago

Wiltshire

Matey bubble bath

Coal tar soap

Vosene shampoo

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By *aptain Caveman41Man
over a year ago

Home

Smell of hay being baled brings me back to stooking bales in the meadow

Knots down and out

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By *enelope2UWoman
over a year ago

Fife

Pine scented cleaners we cut wood and sold it

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By *alking HeadMan
over a year ago

Bolton

"Before photocopying there were banda sheets. After we got our copy of the handout everything would stop for a couple of minutes while we huffed the fumes from the print.

That....

and Wimpy burger restaurants"

We had a copier at primary school called a Gestalt if memory serves. The ink or toner or whatever it was, must have contained ethanol, as I always thought fresh copies smelled of whiskey!

Smells are very powerful memory triggers because they are sensed by a part of the brain that we share with our common ancestors and it's a very primeval sense.

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