cshoremom
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Post by cshoremom on Oct 4, 2016 10:28:41 GMT -5
Was just thinking of how I can be back in my Grandma's kitchen when I make her apple crumb pie. Made it on Sunday, and closed my eyes… and I was there!! The smell of the ocean brings back so many memories/good, nostalgic feelings.. I am sure there are more… I have to think… but those two are the main ones I think. How about for you?  |
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lucy
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Post by lucy on Oct 4, 2016 12:10:46 GMT -5
A few yrs ago, I went to a state park with my sister, and we visited an old saw mill...it also held a mini museum of farm tools, machinery, etc. It immediately brought forth a memory of my grandparents farm......they had a room off the kitchen that might have been a mud porch at some time, but when I was young it held a cabinet where my grandmother kept her sewing supplies. I asked my sister what the smell was....since I found it full of memories......and she said....mold ? dust? mildew ? machine oil?  .....my dad was a mechanic, so those were also familiar fumes. also - snickerdoodle cookies baking. I always have pine scented candles during the winter.... |
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Post by footballbella on Oct 4, 2016 13:15:15 GMT -5
I saw scents and perked up lol
salty air mixed with desert dry heat...ahh San Diego. Add in some seals and seagulls into the smell mixture.
Cinnamon...family christmas (not from baking but from scented pine cones and such) my mom baked and such but not like what some would think about in memory.
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Post by mamamunchkin on Oct 4, 2016 14:24:33 GMT -5
CInnabar perfume reminds me of my mom's bathrobe.
Grilled cheese reminds me of my grandma. I love that buttery smell.
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Post by kidsandpets on Oct 4, 2016 15:33:52 GMT -5
"Christmas" - this might sound weird but the boxes we always packed Christmas stuff in always had a certain smell - the candles probably. Whatever it was, it all combined to smell like "Christmas" to me. "Old hallway" ( ) - I have no idea how to describe this. At our old church back in Pullman, in the old building, there was this back stairway between the kitchen downstairs and the upstairs "sanctuary" area. The smell in that stairway always reminded me of going up the stairs in the house my grandparents had when I was very young. I loved taking those stairs at church whenever I had reason to. Creosote - ok, I've got some really weird ones! But the smell of creosote, always reminds me of ferry docks and waiting for ferries - I spent the first 20 years of my live living on an island only accessible by ferry so that's a good smell. And if salt water just happens to be there too, that smell combination will really put me on a ferry dock. (Salt water alone is a good smell too!) Oh, and hot asphalt - reminds me waiting in road construction during family trips as a kid. Fresh cut grass - lots of childhood memories there. Wood smoke - more childhood memories "Harvest" - from age 20-30 I lived in a college town in the middle of farmland. You could smell the wheat in the late summer as harvest came and was in process. Those were good times. (I do NOT have the same nostalgia with the smell of ripe/overripe and rotting fruit that goes with harvest around here.  ) Horses - Memories of the horses we had when I was little. Memories of my Abner. I'm not sure I will ever stop missing that. |
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Kelly
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Post by Kelly on Oct 4, 2016 17:20:33 GMT -5
Fresh cut grass and the scent of my mock orange bush in spring. Apple /cinnamon and pumpkin pies baking.
And the fresh ocean breeze . I remember the scent of the ocean from bermuda years ago.
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BC
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Post by BC on Oct 8, 2016 13:10:45 GMT -5
Shannon, I'm right there with ya on the weird factor with this one... Whatever that smell is that comes from those window air conditioners. I don't even know what the smell is. Perhaps exhaust? Anti-freeze? I really don't know. It's probably all chemicals, but for whatever reason, I love that smell. We had a window air conditioner in our dining room when I was a kid, and it was always a special occasion when we had it on, so I guess I just associate the smell with happy. And, again with the strange... One brand of cigarettes. Don't even know what brand it is. I spent a lot of time with my best friend's family when I was growing up, and whenever I walk past someone smoking whatever brand that is, I'm 8 years old again. I wonder what my kids would say to this question. Wonder what scents of our life when they were growing up are embedded in their memory banks. ?? hmmm. |
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Post by kidsandpets on Oct 9, 2016 15:15:14 GMT -5
Glad I'm not the only one with some weird ones, BC! |
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Post by Januinely~me on Oct 9, 2016 15:54:02 GMT -5
The smell of irises bring back memories of being a child.
The smell of rain reminds me of summer rain showers and running barefoot through puddles when I was a kid.
The smell of bonfires remind me of the school I went to when I was 7.
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cshoremom
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Post by cshoremom on Oct 10, 2016 7:13:15 GMT -5
Another one…
whenever I clean with bleach it smells like "Cape Cod" LOL… The place where we stay has a huge indoor pool area that always smells like chlorine because it's warm and steamy in there… ( I love it!) WHen I clean with bleach, even the kids will say, "Oh it smells like Cape Cod!"…. believe me, Cape Cod smells heavenly! (only the hotel pool room smells like bleach!) From the time they were born we vacationed there, so it's ingrained in their memories!
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.....my dad was a mechanic, so those were also familiar fumes.
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