Does a smell of a certain scent take you back in time?
Granger pipe tobacco. Grandpa’s brand.
April 25, 2022, 11:32 AM
aileron
One whiff of Castrol R sends me back to the Friday night Ascot Park flat track races in the '60s
April 25, 2022, 11:55 AM
rock185
I was an M48A3 TC in RVN. For several years after I came back, the smell of diesel smoke took me back.
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April 25, 2022, 12:05 PM
drabfour
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Originally posted by ador: Old Spice after shave cologne. Reminds me of my father. I smell it on him when I was young. In the 70s, they used to come in an ivory like bottle. The newer one come in the same shape bottle, but plastic.
On a different note… we stopped speaking to each other in 2006. He died a year ago. Never got the chance to make peace with him. I tried. But he had his own ways.
Yeah that would bring me back to my dad for sure.
Also these vintage cologne bottles.
April 25, 2022, 12:15 PM
vinnybass
Laundry hanging outside on a line. Very specific, I know, but it takes me back to that spring day long ago.
"We're all travelers in this world. From the sweet grass to the packing house. Birth 'til death. We travel between the eternities."
April 25, 2022, 12:19 PM
Gustofer
A certain perfume.
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April 25, 2022, 12:53 PM
RichardC
Corn silage---> Holsteins, Jerseys and Guernseys, four decades ago. .This message has been edited. Last edited by: RichardC, April 25, 2022 02:01 PM
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April 25, 2022, 01:40 PM
Fdan
Saddle soap and Neatsfoot oil to break in a new ball glove.
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April 25, 2022, 01:43 PM
PASig
The smell of musty canvas instantly makes me think of the Army, it's such a distinctive smell.
April 25, 2022, 02:05 PM
slosig
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Originally posted by sse: Time machine for sure, e.g. my first gf's perfume...there are many others.
This.
April 25, 2022, 02:21 PM
Flash-LB
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Originally posted by PASig: The smell of musty canvas instantly makes me think of the Army, it's such a distinctive smell.
Yeah me too.
It's one of the things I always loved about surplus stores.
April 25, 2022, 02:35 PM
Aglifter
+1 for perfume.
Nothing else smells like it, but I’ll remember the smell of the ranch after a rain and the tobacco barn (my family raised cigar wrapper for ~200 years) the rest of my life.
April 25, 2022, 02:43 PM
2PAK
If I get into a car manufactured in the 40's-50's or so, the smell brings me back. I think it's the cloth seats but something about the interior smell of that era brings me back in time.
April 25, 2022, 04:29 PM
Ronin101
Fresh cut alfalfa. Takes me back to summers on my grandparents farm. best time of my life
April 25, 2022, 04:50 PM
Schmelby
Cedar chest in the basement. Open the lid and smell that wonderful Cedar. Mom gave it to me and I still have it!
April 25, 2022, 05:19 PM
Hay2bale
Two-cycle outboard motor oil. And fish.
---------------------------------------------------- Dances with Crabgrass
April 25, 2022, 05:32 PM
Tinyman
I read these to Mrs Tinyman and her scent was the gardenia bush at the end of the porch growing up.
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April 25, 2022, 05:39 PM
ArtieS
The blue smoke scent of a two stroke Evinrude just firing up, coupled with the tubercular exhaust note at idle, and the bubbling ocean.
I'm a kid again.
"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."
Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.
April 25, 2022, 06:58 PM
Cookster
The smell of a campfire (or the modern backyard fire-pit) takes me back to so many wonderful memories of being with family and friends throughout my life.
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April 25, 2022, 07:32 PM
vthoky
I have my grandparents' grandfather clock. I can open it and smell their house.
