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

What scents or noises evoke memories of youth?

Mine would be the scent of vosene and pears soap, utter constants throughout my youth and the noise would be the silence on a summer day when all you can hear is the odd bee, the burr of a mower and the distant hum of an aeroplane

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By *ittle_brat_evie!!Woman
over a year ago

evesham

cut grass when it has started to dry out a bit - reminds me of being in primary school and making 'nests' out of all the grass clippings on breaks

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

I agree with vosene.

Also coal tar soap... still love that!

Oh and dettol - my Nan used to bath us in it.

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

my great grandad used to smell of coal tar soap and old spice, dont run into either smell often but sat behind an old guy on the bus who had the exact combination the other week and i wanted to hug him!!!

(probably hormones!)

max x

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By *mf4BxJCouple
over a year ago

edinburgh

Honeysuckle reminds me of my gran, brylcream my grandad. I always smile if I catch a whiff of either.

For some reason pears soap reminds me of being a bairn as well.

I bought Matey bubbles for my son some time ago and that took me right back to Sunday baths with my mum playing the guitar to me! I'm pretty sure I had more than one bath a week but in my head it's always a Sunday!

My son had chicken pox and the smell of the calamine lotion brought back memories!

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By *mf4BxJCouple
over a year ago

edinburgh

Oh yes vosene! Proper clean hair smell!

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By *ollie_JCouple
over a year ago

London

Bacon fat from my grains cooking on a old range

Sounds... The sound of a vulcan bomber going over my primary school.. Interestingly somebody must have had the same experience as there is a identical visual record of this in the Stone Roses video for Love Spreads

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

coal fires and the smell of pine trees in the rain brings it all back.......

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

Fizzy Cola Bottles!

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

Ah, nostalgia... it ain't like it used to be.

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By *he BananamanMan
over a year ago

WORCESTERSHIRE

vosene,brylcreem,dettol,old spice,all invoke memories.

the smell of mint sauce on lamb dinners always reminds me of school dinners,always lamb on monday it was!.

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


"vosene,brylcreem,dettol,old spice,all invoke memories.

the smell of mint sauce on lamb dinners always reminds me of school dinners,always lamb on monday it was!."

Chocolate sponge with pink custard would take me right back to school dinners.

I don't think I've seen pink custard since I left primary school in 1989!

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By *uton_coupleCouple
over a year ago

luton

will never forget the smell of cod liver oil stuck in my mouth on a teaspoon , followed by an even bigger spoon full of malt

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By *mf4BxJCouple
over a year ago

edinburgh

Zoflora! My gran used to use it - I think it's a disenfectant thing.

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By *ensualfire88Man
over a year ago

Edinburgh

Castrol R

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By *etillanteWoman
over a year ago

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There was aline of bushes outside my junior school, I have no idea what it is but one of my neighbours has the same bush. When it flowers and the aroma hits Im back at St Matthews Junior school.

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


"vosene,brylcreem,dettol,old spice,all invoke memories.

the smell of mint sauce on lamb dinners always reminds me of school dinners,always lamb on monday it was!.

Chocolate sponge with pink custard would take me right back to school dinners.

I don't think I've seen pink custard since I left primary school in 1989!"

...i always keep an eye out for it when i'm shoppin, living in hope!!

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford

Sheep dip

and turnips

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

brylcreme, pears soap, vosene, dettol god we must have been clean lol!!

the smell of hai karate aftershave due to my 3 brothers drenching themselves in it.....after the hai karate soap on the rope then upgrading to brut!! gadz!!! the smell of soup and home baking, the smell of a coal fire so many smells bring back different memories xx

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

my parent and grandparents were greengrocers ..the smell of cooking beetroot does it for me ..

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

chuffing heck, there's a website dedicated to school recipes...with such gems as pink custard, cheese and potatoe pie, cornflake flan and my favourite, cheese pie...there was a lot of cheese used!

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay


"chuffing heck, there's a website dedicated to school recipes...with such gems as pink custard, cheese and potatoe pie, cornflake flan and my favourite, cheese pie...there was a lot of cheese used!"

That was back when cheese was cheaper than meat, not always the case now.

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By *ushroom7Man
over a year ago

Bradford

I thought that meat was more hthan plentiful and cheap in certin parts.

Morrisons sometimes do good offers on Topside.

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By *iamondsmiles.Woman
over a year ago

little house on the praire

eau de cologne

coty l',aimt

lavender

cigars

pipes

violet sweets

fresh laundered hankerchiefs

daisy chains

Thick navy school knickers

cheese and potato pie with tomatoes

fondant iced cakes

homemade ginger beer

tinned peaches and bread and butter

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

The sound of a lawn mower on a sunday morning.

Hearing the chimes of an Icecream van.

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By *mcouple1Couple
over a year ago

nr warrington

got to be the dreaded TCP at infants school x i,m sure i still smell of it and that was 32 years ago

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By *iewMan
Forum Mod
over a year ago

Angus & Findhorn

Wee wee

Was a bed wetter till I was 37

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By *ensualfire88Man
over a year ago

Edinburgh

Butterscotch Angel Delight

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By *atisfy janeWoman
over a year ago

Torquay

Birds Trifle...Gypsy Tart...Samolina...Endless stews

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

Chocolate crunch and pink custard we used ta have at school

(cant stand it now thou lol xx)

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By *mf4BxJCouple
over a year ago

edinburgh

Lynx Africa reminds of silly kisses at school discos!

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


"cut grass when it has started to dry out a bit - reminds me of being in primary school and making 'nests' out of all the grass clippings on breaks "

yes lovely

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


"eau de cologne

coty l',aimt

lavender

cigars

pipes

violet sweets

fresh laundered hankerchiefs

daisy chains

Thick navy school knickers

cheese and potato pie with tomatoes

fondant iced cakes

homemade ginger beer

tinned peaches and bread and butter"

what sort of smell did the navy nicks have then? or were they noisy?

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

my flatulant grandad. Both sound and smell

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