Smells that take you back

[RootDKJ]

Were you ever canteen boy?

Memories are a bit hazy.

 

[playoutside]

Not a smell, but the sound of cicadas on hot summer days reminds me of being a kid and just being out playing all day in the summer.

Completely agree on this. Grew up pretty much in the woods and they could be deafening at night. Was always funny to have people visit and give a shocked "What is that?!" Living nearer the city, I still miss that sound on summer nights.

 

[OldsnowboarderME]

Completely agree on this. Grew up pretty much in the woods and they could be deafening at night. Was always funny to have people visit and give a shocked "What is that?!" Living nearer the city, I still miss that sound on summer nights.

I grew up in the woods of Maine. I remember the sound of the Whippoorwill at night. I have always had ringing in my ears. One of the sounds I hear most of the time I like to call the cicada.

 

[andyzee]

skunk or blueberries...

Yeahhhhh........:wink: fer sure.

 

[ctenidae]

The smell of honesuckle, the sound of cicadas.

The smell of cordite, the odor of an exhaust leak in a truck that's running too rich, deer guts burning in an open fire pit.

Fresh horse poop on a cold morning, that particularly super sweet smell of horse oats with sorghum.

 

[trtaylor]

Fall

crisp air, decomposing leaves, mums etc. For whatever reason, I remember the autumn season more than others from my childhood. Playing football with the neighborhood kids, Halloween and excitement for the first snow of the year.

+1

 

[ComeBackMudPuddles]

fresh cut grass. i mowed a lot of friggin' lawn when i was young.

new CDs. i used to collect a LOT of music when i was young, and that new CD smell always makes me think of liners to cassettes.

 

[wa-loaf]

The smell of the ink from a mimeograph machine on my school quizzes.

 

[Beetlenut]

The smell of rain on hot pavement after a thunderstorm rolls through on a hot summer's day.

 

[billski]

The smell of the DDT blower truck as it passed through the neighborhood and my mother made us stay inside.

Crop dusters that hit the field across the street , buzzed our house afterwards while turning off the release valve...

am I dead yet???

 

[ctenidae]

The smell of the DDT blower truck as it passed through the neighborhood and my mother made us stay inside.

Crop dusters that hit the field across the street , buzzed our house afterwards while turning off the release valve...

am I dead yet???

Those are pretty familiar ones, too.

 

[campgottagopee]

Smoke from a woodstove-------I thought my name was "get wood" until I was 16.

 

[ctenidae]

Smoke from a woodstove-------I thought my name was "get wood" until I was 16.

And from then on it was "got wood"?

 

[campgottagopee]

And from then on it was "got wood"?

Hey!!! lol

 

[HD333]

Grapes. There were some wild grapes near my house growing up and man I loved that smell. I still get a wiff of them everynow and again. Maybe that is why I consume so much Wine now as an adult.

 

[Marc]

Smoke from a woodstove-------I thought my name was "get wood" until I was 16.

Isn't anything quite like that smell on a chilly, crisp and clear autumn night when you can almost swear you saw a snowflake.

Good times.

The smell of Lestoil brings me back to the days when we used to burn brush piles and I'd get white pine sap all over myself. Lestoil takes that stuff off good.

 

[RootDKJ]

Driving past the Anheuser Bush brewery on Rt 1&9 at 3am on a summer night...smells like freshly baked bagels.

 

[mondeo]

The smell of Lestoil brings me back to the days when we used to burn brush piles and I'd get white pine sap all over myself. Lestoil takes that stuff off good.

Are we going to have to get into yet another conversation on safe solvents?