I'm fed up with acrid, cloying, fake pongs from airfresheners.
I propose a new set of scents - those from our childhoods.
Starting with Play Dough. I LOVED that smell - better than Plasticene and a constant feature of my childhood. It would certainly make me happy to walk into a room with that smell.
Or what about school chalk and blackboard?
Oh and my Grandpa's pipe smoke - no idea which tobacco he used but it was lovely. He died when I was 8.
What scents from the past would you like to have available?
Fresh Creosote on wooden panel fences on a new housing estate - We moved up from a slum apartment block in London - It's always evocative of newness new beginnings and adventure I mean there wre fields and trees and everything we could see from our brand new house !!
I loved the smell of my granddad's pipe tobacco when I was a kid - smells different these days.
Esso Blue.
Omo.
Real smoked bacon.
I like rosemary, we have a plant just outside the door. Whitchy will approve of that! On a warm day the scent pervades the house.
Carbolic soap and french lavender remind me of my great gran.
Coal reminds me of my grandparents and I have a button box that sat in their window for 40 years and smells of their cigarettes! I also have a set of sheets stored from their house, when we emptied it as nothing smells as reassuring as my nan's linen. Reminds me of staying with then when we were kids.
Oh yes, like Witchy and others - the smell just before or just after a really torrential and electric thunder storm.
And what is it about the smell of rain after a dry-spell? Where does that come from?
I heard somewhere that our sense of smell is the strongest link to memory. Reading all these emotive posts tends to confirm that. :thumbup:
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