Night Scented Stock..

[funkymoped]

no sooner i smell "night scented stock" it takes me back nearly 30 years..
its got an almost unique scent to it and as the name suggests, gives off its best smell in the cool of night..

takes me back to the times i used to get home from wherever ide been and would just sit and chat with friends. spent many a happy hour just chilling and enjoying life....

for those who dont know, its a small summer flower...

anyone else got a particular "something" that remindes them of a time long ago ?

[tinkertontom]

I've got some in my garden and they have such a lovely smell,you can smell them in our bedroom when the window is open at night ,its a shame they dont smell during the daytime as well. the smell of wallfowers and gerraniums takes me back to when I was a kid ,there was always some growing in the garden

[n00dles]

Hi funkymoped

Orange peel thrown on an open coal fire......*Sniff*

Mum's bread pudding, hot from the oven......Oooh

[hammerman]

I grow night scented stock every year. Along with the honeysuckle and sweetpeas, my garden has a plethora of gorgeous evening smells.

I also grow night scented phlox.....which smells of vanilla and is gorgeous.

The smell of geraniums, marigolds and tomato plants takes me back years

[funkymoped]

Tomato plants in the greenhouse ! :-)

[sweetdor]

walking into an olde worlde sweet shop that first smell you smell as you go in reminds my of infant school,when i used to in before school to get me 3d worth of sherbet,the powder sort that used to stain our fingers and it looked like you had been smoking, i felt so grown up,but no worries not like nowadays but thats another story.thanks for the memories

[spinchimp]

The taste of a madeline biscuit - it reminds me of things past.

[WendyS]

I love the perfume of night scented stocks. But I had to give up growing them after I planted over a hundred plants out in the borders one year. Returned home from work that evening to discover that my dear old tortoise had spent the day ambling round the flower beds and eaten every single one of them right down to the stump.
So if I can't settle for that nostalgic smell, I'll settle for the scent of an applewood bonfire on an autumn evening.
When I was a child, my parents grew an enormous patch of Lilly of the Valley which also had a special evocative fragrance when they flowered every spring. And another favourite smell I'd have nominate is Yardleys Lavender Water which my mother would always sprinkle on my pillow when I was feeling unwell as a small child.

[unruliejulie]

sorry but i have to disagree about the night scented stocks funkymoped. i can't stand the smell of them, maybe its my nose at fault because i seem to be in the minority but they have a sickly smell that i just cant stand!

[funkymoped]

Hi unrulie...
there isnt an issue... this thread was just asking if YOU have a "something" that reminds you of the past...

:-)

[unruliejulie]

Oh, sorry, i forgot to answer your question as well, my apologies funkymoped. The smell of Oil of Olay always reminds me of my Nana. She always smelt of that lovely creamy smell of olay (Ulay as it was) smell. ahhh

[spinchimp]

julie - negative post!!!! (Thats my job)

[unruliejulie]

Maybe its your infulence rubbing off on me spinchimp :-) My hero!!!!!

[spinchimp]

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