what 3 smells remind you of childhood?

[zzxxee]

mine are
1............. carbolic soap my nan used this for everything !!!!!!!!!
2........ Lily of the valley perfume by yardley .. Yep nan again
3.......Hair gel i used to get through tons of this as a teenager in the 80s lol

[Bbbananas]

Cabbage & Old Spice(dad)
Pledge Polish (mum)
Charlie perfume (me & my sis)

Ok, that's 4 - but it's my dad, for whom all exceptions are allowed ;-)

[zzxxee]

thats ok you can have 4 xx

[B00]

1- Vosene
2-Germolene
3- Melting tar, the stuf used on roads. Reminds me of loooooong hot summers where it used to melt on our cobbled streets and of my mum rollocking me as it was always stuck to my knickers and socks.

[zzxxee]

Yes melting tar i forgot about that x

[B00]

Doesi t remind you of playing out all day every day xxzzee? You only went in when your mum called you in for tea and then bedtimes?

Imagine doing that nowadays? LOL

[zzxxee]

it does boo ahhhh memories right i need to pop out catch you later x

[ummmm]

TCP
Stale beer
Diesel

[TTG]

Sunday roast dinner cooking.
Creosote - My mates Dad used on his garden fence. Seemed like it did it every week!
Floor polish - Wooden flooring in school.

[T&S]

Soot - reminds me of when I was a Chimney Sweep, cor Blimey Mary Poppins.

[rowanwitch]

roasting chestnuts
coal fires
Aunt Win's chips nothing like them yummmmmmmmmmmy

[tiggerblue10]

Hi zzxxee,

My uncles who we used to live with back in the seventies had a record player and the smell of vinyl brings back memories of my childhood. Very odd I know.

[Jemisa]

1 - Apples, There was always a bowl of apples on my aunts sideboard.

2 - New Mown hay. I lived in the country when small.

3 - Evening in Paris perfume, my Mums Fav.

jem

[tiggerblue10]

Ooops forgot the other 2!

Matey bubble bath and Vosene shampoo.

[Dris]

Smell of a bakehouse (reminds me of my Nannie and Grandad)
Je t'aime
Brut
Melted tar as well now B00 mentioned it -happy days when we had a swimming pool (paddling pool) in the park and we left at 8 in the morning and were there until tea time:)

[McMouse]

1. The combined smell of Capstan Full Strength and other unmentionable odours
coming from the toilet as my Dad read the Sunday paper.

2. Fried bacon for breakfast.

3. Warm sour milk that had been left out in the sun at school.

[tweenyb]

cabbage, bacon, pollish and cakes being baked

[anneasquith]

vosene shampoo........................mince.........
................damp
washing on the pully.

[rowanwitch]

vosene shampoo addicts can recreate that moment with polytar shampoo same coal tar fragrance or wrights coal tar soap...

Lifebuoy hard red soap blocks like carbolic only not quite so fierce on your skin..

[anneasquith]

vosene shampoo is available in the shops.