Favorite smells. Smells that make you nostalgic.

[JP557CU]

The smell of a Christmas tree. Whether freshly cut or when it’s in the house. The smell always hits me with a wave of all the Christmases of the past that come with so many awesome memories!

Also, the smell of Fall. Crispy leaves on the ground, the temperatures dropping, and everything just seems so perfect as the trees form a canopy of orange, red, yellow, and brown.

 

[Grassshoppa]

Gas and exhaust smell from lawn mowers. Reminds me of riding this when I was a kid.

 

[Lovestorm]

 

[Texan6533]

Cooking bar b que over wood chips. Reminds me of my childhood every Sunday evening.

 

[Boxeo12]

Heineken and weed when in the Netherlands in a pub especially at the summer .

 

[Kaybee]

Incense
Burning Sage
Campfire/Bonfire Smoke
Christmas Trees
Apple Pie fresh out of the oven
Pumpkin Spice

 

[Plissken]

Moss Man and Stinkor from Masters of the Universe.

 

[Darth_Inv1ctu5]

Can be either or.

Was walking through the burbs tonight and smelled someone grilling seasoned steak. Hot damn that smelled good! Definitely a favorite smell.

That or the smell of a campfire in the woods at night.

It's a weird thing, olfactory memory. I have only one - the smell of my old building's elevator, and that, invariably, invokes memories. Like I'm talking me being 3 years old memories. The brain is a strange place. That smell is something that factory resets me every time

 

[Amerikuracana]

It depends, snd some smells that trigger memory sensation of a time/place are hard to decipher. It’s just a smell you smelled one day as a child; maybe from a new toy or just when you got one.. Places.. it’s a different kind of memory; it’s a sensation memory. It’s an older part of our brains and a throw back to how we had memory’s before we could even speak.

I have a good sense of smell and enjoy many outdoor smells.. But again, it’s odd smells of homes or a cream or something that shoots me immediately back to a time when I was a child. It’s interesting, again, because it’s a different “kind” of memory.

 

[El Chimpo]

The orange hand soap ay my job

Reminds me of my first elementary school in my home town..before i had to move away

 

[Champagne]

Marzipan, I don't even know if I actually like it, it just makes me sooo nostalgic for my grandmother.

 

[Kdup]

The one in England closed donkeys years ago, but it was a really familiar smell. It was a real hangover sausage and onion baguette on a Sunday morning walking around this gigantic market for hours.

One thing about my job traveling around the world is that each country has its own scent. Maybe it’s more each region, but traveling from another country it really stands out. In England I remember the smell from Cardiff and London/Heathrow much differently. And as I’m currently in Mexico, (not to offend any Mexicans) but it quite often smells like shit here. Just a wafting smell of raw sewage always in the air. And they don’t flush their TP they wipe their ass with, so the bathrooms are really ripe. But other than that, a great place.

 

[Iceberg Slim]

Gunpowder! For a several years, long range precision fire was my 9 to 5. To this day, the smell of burned gunpowder takes me back

 

[GSP_37]

Bakery smell.

 

[WandySaku2]

Privet and Honeysuckle.

I'm a country kid that spent most of my childhood outside.

 

[Brampton_Boy]

Tea Tree Oil - Use to use this stuff as a teen for acne, and recently started using it again to line my face masks with. I love the astringent smell.

Hugo Boss Blue - I would pay alot of money for this, as it was discontinued. This was my older brother's cologne, and I used to steal it from him to use when I was in high school. It reminds me of both that time, and my brother (who I only get to see once a year, as his family lives in California)

Blue Stratus/Gillette Cool Wave - This one has a bittersweet memory, because it is what my dad used to wear. When I was cleaning out my dad's house after he died, I found a bottle and smelling it brought back a rush of memories. I started to use it myself, if only so it feels like a small piece of my dad is always with me.

Cherry Chapstick - Same reasons as above

Vicks Vapor Rub - I just love the smell of it and it helps me relax to fall asleep.

Body Shop Raspberry Body Spray - It's what my bestfriend/first love used to wear (and still does) and the smell of it can stop me in my tracks. I couldn't tell you if it is a good feeling or a bad feeling, but the sense of longing/nostalgia is almost palpable.

 

[Simple Southerner]

Pussy or old school cologne

 

[Livingenergy]

Coffee and vanilla.

 

[squeezewax]

When you go to a fairground and you smell the Candy Floss. I think it's called Cotton Candy in America? In NZ, at least when i lived there a long time ago, it's called Fairy Floss. Yeah, that's a beautiful smell.

Cinnamon!

 

[mb23100]

I grew up in a small farm town in Wisconsin so....



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