Smells that take you back to your childhood.

[Trinity765]

Cap guns.

[Skub]

Another for Calamine lotion. No sun cream in those days,you just were burnt,then covered in Calamine with bits of cotton wool stuck to your skin.

Old Spice,as my Da used the stuff.

If a workshop has that oily,hot metal smell it takes me back to my apprenticeship years.

[Taipan]

I love the smell of creosote. Proper memory of summers in my yoof when people use to paint their fences with the stuff. Dandelion & Burdock is anotherthat takes me back too...

[Felix]

I love the smell of creosote. Proper memory of summers in my yoof when people use to paint their fences with the stuff. Dandelion & Burdock is anotherthat takes me back too...

Got a neighbour that still used Creosote on his shed. You should see the big rusty old tin he has. Probably nicked it when he worked up the farm.

[Taipan]

I love the smell of creosote. Proper memory of summers in my yoof when people use to paint their fences with the stuff. Dandelion & Burdock is anotherthat takes me back too...

Got a neighbour that still used Creosote on his shed. You should see the big rusty old tin he has. Probably nicked it when he worked up the farm.

My father-in-law (mechanic) used to recycle his old engine oil mixed with diesel and use that as a preservative. Would stink the place out when he used it but his wooden garage doors lasted 40 years!

[ChrisW]

Bonfires always take me back. My dad loved burning stuff at the weekend.

I think he passed that gene on to my middle brother who quite literally set the house on fire twice when we were kids.

That and strawberry Angel Delight.

[Yorick]

I love the smell of creosote. Proper memory of summers in my yoof when people use to paint their fences with the stuff. Dandelion & Burdock is anotherthat takes me back too...

Got a neighbour that still used Creosote on his shed. You should see the big rusty old tin he has. Probably nicked it when he worked up the farm.

My father-in-law (mechanic) used to recycle his old engine oil mixed with diesel and use that as a preservative. Would stink the place out when he used it but his wooden doors lasted 40 years!

WD40

[Sadlonelygit]

Wintergreen and ralgex
I'm 7 years old and playing my first competitive rugby match

[Felix]

I love the smell of creosote. Proper memory of summers in my yoof when people use to paint their fences with the stuff. Dandelion & Burdock is anotherthat takes me back too...

Got a neighbour that still used Creosote on his shed. You should see the big rusty old tin he has. Probably nicked it when he worked up the farm.

My father-in-law (mechanic) used to recycle his old engine oil mixed with diesel and use that as a preservative. Would stink the place out when he used it but his wooden garage doors lasted 40 years!

I know a few folk who paint the old oil onto the chassis of there vans.

[Newey]

I can't picture the bottle but the smell of Brilliantine and dads hair being slicked back.

[weeksy]

Salt water. My first years were pretty close to the Mersey and most weeks you'd be right at the sea, it seemed to smell more of the sea then.

[asmethurst99]

Sugar Beet factory - knew Autumn was here - used to be reminded of it by Tate and Lyle sometimes

[v8-powered]

Scampi Fries

[mangocrazy]

Burnt toast in the morning.

(See also 'Sounds that take you back to your childhood')

[Timmy]

Dettol, my Dad used to put some in his bath.
Creosote, caps. One smell that does evoke memories of visiting my Nan on a Sunday is leather, she used to live opposite a tannery. Bloody lovely smell and always got a proper feed at my Nans, whether I wanted feeding or not.

[Felix]

One smell that does evoke memories of visiting my Nan on a Sunday is leather, she used to live opposite a tannery. Bloody lovely smell and always got a proper feed at my Nans, whether I wanted feeding or not.

That reminds me of an old Aunt who we would visit at least once a month. She lived across from Sunblest Bakery. The small of cooking bread i love. Some probably 15 years later we moved into the area only for Sunblest to close down a year later

[Mr Moofo]

The smell of Toluene - in dab it off stain remove
4 star petrol - for removing the bike chain grease from my scout trousers (again)
Burnt toast
Christmas lunch
A fan heater getting very hot
Yacht varnish
Damp PE kit because you never took it home
Cherry flavoured Tunes

[Count Steer]

The burnt toast 'thing'.

I well remember the sink full of black scrapings but, you know what? Burnt toast, after the scraping, was one way of making the standard white, sliced loaf actually taste of something. Even now, when someone tries to toast a slab of sourdough and slightly burns the crust, I don't mind.

Anyway, charcoal is good for the digestion.

[ZRX61]

Coal tar soap, paternal grandparents house reeked of it.. except on Sundays when the place smelled of Sunday lunch which meant I'd get a plate of at least 8 HUGE Yorkshires & nan's onion/beef gravy before the rest of the meal.

[ZRX61]

Swarfega, apparently still made, but horrendously expensive in the US.