and I'm not talking about model cement :D

Burning flesh.

"I won't do it again, I promise! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!"

(just kidding)

Burning flesh.

"I won't do it again, I promise! AAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!"

(just kidding)

Reminds me of the stink I used to experience when I burned insects with a magnifying glass. That was 40 years ago. I'm much older, wiser and kinder now. ;)

Pink erasers from school.

the smell of a new bicycle straight from the box

fresh toast...with butter and jelly :).... reminds me of mornings at my grandparents...miss em alot

Bazooka bubble gum! :p

school paste (yum) and the pine air fresheners my father use to always hang in the car, I guess to cover up the bubble wrap seat protector vinyl smell.

School paste - smelled yummy but I could never understand how kids ate that stuff!

The smell of a new doll. I got one every Christmas, and the vinyl smell is one I'll never forget.

used manual transmission fluid - leaking out of my first RX-7.

The smell of the "Dodge-'em" cars at the amusement park. Ozone, carbon dust, machine oil... Heaven.

The smell of snow when you're laying in it.

Warm bannana pudding.

Bactine/mercurachrome/merthiolate/calamine lotion and Band-Aids

kindergarten fart...hard to explain..they have that distinctive smell. lol

Country smells: fresh cut hay, cow patties, burning leaves in the distance, all intermingled.

Fireworks.

Grandma's perfume.

kindergarten fart...hard to explain..they have that distinctive smell. lol

Not sure if that's just fart you're smelling there.

A brand new box of Crayola crayons, freshly opened. I still love crayons!

The smell of celery and onions sauteing in butter, early on Thanksgiving morning -- my mom would always get up extra early to make the dressing from scratch and put the turkey in the oven.

The gym locker at school after I forgot to take home the sweats one weekend for cleaning. Also the tuna sandwich that was "lost" over Christmas break in my hall locker.

Wild onions. They grew in our yard, and on summer evenings after I had mowed the lawn the odor was everywhere.

Another summer scent that snaps me back to childhood - honeysuckle.

(At nomopiston's request, I'll refrain from waxing eloquent about the bracing bouquet of Testor's Model Cement.)

I agree with Aratinga about the crayons, but I also remember the smell of our new 1962 Volkswagen beetle's interior. Very distinctive and pleasant, but different that other new cars. Don't know why I still remember that of all things!

Burning plastic. What can i say i liked fire.

Modeling clay. We must have built a thousand rocket ships during summer break. The smell takes me back there instantly.

DeBug

My grandma's cookies :D

I agree with Aratinga about the crayons, but I also remember the smell of our new 1962 Volkswagen beetle's interior. Very distinctive and pleasant, but different that other new cars. Don't know why I still remember that of all things!

If I recall, VW was fond of using horse hair. My Beetle convertible's top was insulated with it. I think the seats were also padded with it.

The purple ink that used to be used in school to run off papers from that old drum roller duplicating machine......ahhhhhhhh.....sweet!

....old smelly PIPE tobacco!

There is nothing quite like it, and I bet it's been 15 years since I last smelled some.

S

Yes! The ditto paper: the official smell of 1970's elementary school.

I remember my mom's cheescake, cut alfalfa and model airplane cement.

Play-Doh! :D

Silly Putty, grape fizzies (most of you youngin's don't know about these) and Castoria ( my mother use to give this to us when we had constipation) it smelled and tasted like Root Beer :o And yes, the infamous Mimeograph ink. The smell of the sawdust the custodian used to clean up puke in school

Play-Doh! :D
^^^ Me too! I almost want to go buy some Play-Doh, Silly Putty and Crayolas just to see if they still smell the same as I remember.

And I can make all you ditto-heads a great deal on some old leftover cans of ditto solvent... ;)

That smell that's generated when there are a lot of little kids in one space. Not quite sure how else to describe it, but it's potent and it brings me right back to the early years.

Cooked cabbage = space travel.

When Neil Armstrong stepped onto the lunar surface in 1969 (I was 3), my mom was cooking cabbage.
Now the two are inextricably linked.

When I walk into the Air and Space Museum, I can smell it in my brain.

The scent of new shoes and a new set of clothes on the first day of school. I can still remember walking the halls, shoes squeeking, corduroy jeans doing the (rub rub) sounds as I walked. All the smells of the first day of school, stale air from inside the buildings having been shut up all summer, the smell of new pencils and paper, all of it.


gah..........I finally left hell in the past...and now thanks to this thread......I will relive it in my nightmares.... :(

1. The smell of any grade school cafeteria.
2. Cox fueled gas powered cars.
3. (way back) security pillow and your thumb pulled in tight.
4. The sweet smell of Grandpas pipe, as he sat with hand on knee in his favorite chair, listening to and telling stories.

Bacon... I remember eating lots of it while watching saturday morning cartoons. The best smell EVER.

Vicks Vaporub - reminds me of visiting my great-grandmother because she always smelled like that and a mix of some powdery perfume.

The acrid smell of fear, and the metallic stink of blood...reminds me of how scared I would be when my stepfather was home. And no, I am not joking.

Caps
Creepy-Crawlers
Orange sherbet Push-ups (when they still had wooden sticks and paper 'pushers')
smell of hot sun on creosote-soaked railroad ties
The ancient bottle of "Old Spice" in the medicine cabinet
The mildewy smell of our tree fort
The dog's feet smelled like Fritos
Fritos
The smells before, during and after a big thunderstorm. Sadly, we don't get many of those here in CA. We used to get some hum-dingers off of Lake Erie. Real Cecil B. DeMille stuff.

Fresh grass. Reminds me of Pop Warner Football and soccer.

I remember the creepy crawler goo smell as it "cooked" as well as Hai Karate aftershave.

Green olives.

Chalk board erasers.
Wooden building blocks.
Fireworks on the Fourth of July.

smell of hot sun on creosote-soaked railroad ties
good one! :)

Well, for me I'd have to say My Prison Cell.

Well, for me I'd have to say My Prison Cell.


huh?
:eek:

Orange Blossoms - Growing up I'd smell the orange blossoms in the spring/summer months. Now whenever I smell the blossoms I'm taken back to childhood.

^^^ Oh yeah... what a heavy perfume that is! I remember riding my horse through all the citrus groves around LaVerne and SanDimas as a kid, and loving the scent of those flowers. Of course, the groves are all gone now, replaced by tracts of big houses on tiny lots.

I was at Costco the other day and they had a bunch of dwarf citrus trees in 5-gal. pots; some were in bloom, and as soon as I got a whiff of that fragrance I bought two of them.

Dandelions and dish soap.

Mix a little dish soap and water. Then get a nice big dandelion flower stem. They are hollow, like straws and very flexible. Pull the flower off so you've got a "straw". On one end, pull it apart so you have 4 pieces; they will curl back towards the rest of the stem. Dip it in the soapy water and you've got a great little bubble-blower. The yard was full of 'em. How fortuitous! The smell and taste of the bitter dandelion juice and soap. I can't imagine not having grown up with that.

Lionel train smells: the ozone, the puffing smoke.
And as a teacher, believe me-I dont know how it happens-but school still smells the same on the first day as it did when I was a kid! And... Do you notice how classroom problems have escalated since they stopped using the ditto fluid and all those millions of kids & teachers no longer sniff it? I smell a doctoral thesis here!

I grew up as a child in the late 50s early 60’s. When we had a tooth ace, my mom would dip a tiny cotton ball into a dark brown solution in a tiny little bottle and put it on the cavity. It tasted horrible and smelled even worse. 45 years later at a reunion at my Moms house, the siblings were cleaning out the cabinets and we found one of the bottles of this medicine and it smelled just the way it did back then. AWUFULL! Yet it had a very familiar aroma that we just couldn’t quite place so we read the ingredients. The one ingredient that was so overwhelming in the mix was “Creosote” :eek:

I’m waiting for the tumors to start!

^^^ Oh yeah... what a heavy perfume that is! I remember riding my horse through all the citrus groves around LaVerne and SanDimas as a kid, and loving the scent of those flowers. Of course, the groves are all gone now, replaced by tracts of big houses on tiny lots.

I was at Costco the other day and they had a bunch of dwarf citrus trees in 5-gal. pots; some were in bloom, and as soon as I got a whiff of that fragrance I bought two of them.
Yep. I remember both of those areas before all of the development (I had relatives that lived around there).

Whenever I take the family back to visit grandmas and grandpas my wife and I always recall our memories of growing up whenever we catch a whiff of an orange blossum. I'd plant a couple in my yard, but I'm afraid I'd regress back to my childhood ways :D

Newly poured concrete

Grandma's perfume.

No... Grandma's Noxzema!!!


The rubber inflated balls used in dodge-ball.
Sawdust.
Hot dogs on the barbecue.
Charcoal fire starter fluid
Aviation fuel (the smell around airplanes as you boarded)
Tar (the smell by the La Brea tar pits.)
Septic tank stink (you could tell somebody was getting pumped out for miles)
Pool chlorine.
Vomit. (There was always some kid in school who got sick in class)

Super Elastic Bubble Plastic

Super Elastic Bubble Plastic


Yup. and they still make it.

Other smells:

Silly putty
playdoo
honeysuckle
ceder lake smell
saltwater
dirt bike exhaust
gunpowder
pine

Super Elastic Bubble Plastic

I was going to put that, too, but I wasnt sure what to call it . I remember once as a kid letting them go out of the back of my neighbor's Falcon station wagon & one stuck to the windshield of the car behind us! If some kid did that today to me-why I'd....!

Bosco chocolate syrup