What smell............................

[Mr Tall]

reminds you of being young.

This morning whilst washing my hair I used Vosene shampoo, my missus buys the blue one but must have picked up the normal one by mistake. It really took me back to being young in the bath with my sister (this is starting to sound a bit wrong) we were only toddlers! anyway it was a step up from the kitchen sink.

[cazzz1975]

bah, I had to make do with the kitchen sink and carbolic soap!

the smell that reminds me of childhood is dettol, I always used to smell it at school when I was very young

[redcrx]

the smell of playdough and plastercine, baby's rusks, gripe water, loads of things.

Last month my son was prescribed antibiotics in the yellowy solution, the smell of that hasnt changed a bit and I recall having that as a baby. I used to love it too lol

[cazzz1975]

I know the stuff red!!!, I used to try and sneak a swig (it was yummy!) obviously not realising that it was antibiotics!!

luckilt I always got stopped!

[redcrx]

i had to stop myself taking a sneaky swig out of the bottle! lol

[4getmenot]

I have an old perfume bottle that a friend bought me for my 7th birthday and I smell it every now and then

[Kaylz1988]

Peppermint! Rminds me of my grandad :-)

[cyanide]

Max Factor face powder and Nivea cream both remind me of my nan.

[cascarelli]

Vinegar - my mum used to use it in the last rinse when we used to have our hair washed in the sink as kids!

[annie0000]

The plasticky smell that you get inside dolls heads always reminds me of christmas - don't ask, I had 4 older brothers!

[Baby Jane]

Home made rice pudding with nutmeg. Oh and same as you redcrx, that lovely yellow medicine, was it called "amoxycillin"? not sure


xxx

[curlyperm]

Scotts Emulsion (yuk)
Olive oil and Raspberry vinegar (yum)
and Pears soap x

[redcrx]

i think youre right Baby Jane, I hated it when i got too old for the fluid and they gave me tablets instead lol

[Rubyrose]

Atrixo hand cream! I used to rub it on my nans hands when I was a kid and then she would do mine too. Still reminds me of her. (She is alive though.. )

The smell of bubble gum... cheap gumball bubble gums... reminds me of summer... all the kids in my road (me included) used to scrape our change together and buy as many gumballs as we could from the ice cream man!

Vosene.. My mum used to buys it!

[pussnboots]

curlyperm mines Pears Soap to, I buy it sometimes just to smell it.

[smudge]

1st - Crayons, on my very first day at school in 1952!

2nd - A round tin of Gibbs Toothpaste which was pink. Brown bread & butter. Also the musty smell of leaves when walking through the woods. Remember them all from when I was just 5 years old & spent 6 weeks at Webbery Convalescent Home in Bideford, Nth Devon.

3rd - Evening in Paris perfume, which my sister Flo (14 years older) used to use. It came in a dark blue bottle.

4th - Lily of the Valley Talc, which my best friend Janet bought me at 11 years old. It was in a green glass opaque bottle.

[Bathsheba]

Germolene!

[Baby Jane]

smudge awwww

evening in paris,how could I forget,I still have an old empty blue bottle, no smell now tho. Wonder if you can still buy it.

thanks for the memory smudge

[mrs_overall]

Ponds cold cream - my mum used it daily
Germolene
Suleo nit shampoo (do they still make it?)
Buttercup syrup (yum!)
Pears soap
Carnation milk - we had it with tinned fruit every Sunday teatime - I hated the way the fruit juice made it curdle

[curlyperm]

just thought..........in order to take away the taste of the Scotts Emulsion we had Dream Topping with tinned Mandarin Oranges yummy

[bigmamma]

Hi Mr Tall , reading through your thread answers has made me tearful , remembering my mum from so many of the items mentioned.
We used to get bathed with Pears soap , then our hair washed with Vosene followed by a last rinse with added vinegar . :-)