The sense of smell is know for bringing back memories. My favorite smell is cinnamon, What is your favorite?

[debm55]

It reminds me of cookies and cakes.

[C_U_L8R]

1. Fresh cut grass

[debm55]

15. Yes, Thank you C_U_L8R. wonderful summer smell.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

2. Cinnamon/baking smells are a biggie

First thing I thought of, though, was petrichor—that earthy smell in the air when it’s about to rain.

[debm55]

17. OH, I agree. Such a unique smell. Love it, Thank you buzzycrumbhunger.

[ret5hd]

3. that smell that a forest has right after a nice rain.

earthy, dense, almost umami.

[debm55]

18. Thank you ret5hd. You are right it is almost unami.

[PikaBlue]

4. Suntan lotion and chlorine for memories.

[debm55]

19. Yes, the sunny days of summer by the water. thank you PikaBlue.

[anciano]

5. Holiday pine tree🎄

[debm55]

21. Oh yes the smell of pine trees.Wonderful smell. Thank you very much anciano

[evemac]

6. Pumpkin pie nt

[debm55]

22. YUMMY. the smell is wonderful. Thank you very much evemac.

[pandr32]

7. Bread baking.

It seems to waft out of the house!

[debm55]

23. Oh ya. Thank you very much pandr32. A wonderful smell.

[Shambala]

8. Grilled saba (mackerel)

My mom would grill mackerel and the whole house would smell. Absolutely loved it. When I'd leave work late when I worked in JTown the smell would be wafting outside my building and would remind me of mom's cooking.

[debm55]

24. Oh Shambala. that smell sounds so wonderful Thank you for sharing

[FalloutShelter]

9. Roses

My paternal Grandfather had a sizable rose garden. When the garden was in full bloom, the entire street smelled like roses.
Never forget it. We lived three doors down and I would come back from a visit with a bouquet every day.

[debm55]

25. What a beautiful smell and sweet memories to go with it. Thank you, FalloutShelter.

[moniss]

10. New mown hay on a summer evening. Also

being in the country when spring blossoms are out and the smell of the air from the blossoms and spring rain. My slow cooker.

[debm55]

46. Wonderful , simply wonderful moniss. Thank you for sharing with us. I like the smell of hay also.

[Raven123]

11. Pine Sol

I know it’s weird. My late mother was obsessive about cleaning the house ON SCHEDULE. When I would drive in for a weekend visit, arriving late Friday night, I could still smell the Pine Sol. I learned 99% of my cleaning habits from her, but not quite the obsessive timing.

Her self discipline was awe inspiring.

[malaise]

32. LOL

I only buy the lavender one now but my mother was an original PinSol queen.😀

[debm55]

50. thank you very Malaise for sharing with us. I think I would take the lavender over the Pine.

[debm55]

49. HAHAHAHAH. Thank you very much Raven123 for sharing with us. May her memories be a blessing to your heart.

[yellowdogintexas]

53. Not me. Serious headache inducer for me nt

[Dorothy V]

12. Coffee perking and bacon or sausage frying

I woke to those smells so many times as a child! The smells of breakfast and being snug under the quilts made me feel so loved and safe and happy!
Also roses. Mom always wore rose sachet.

[Polly Hennessey]

13. If we are talking spices, I love the smell of curry and ginger.

I guess one childhood memory is mom baking gingerbread. Seems all my smells are food related, hummmmmmm!

[WheelWalker]

14. Mown hay curing in the field.

[Silent Type]

16. Mimeographed paper.

[Hassler]

20. Basil. Whenever I smell it I think fondly

Of my Italian grandmother who had me first try a leaf of it when I was 5.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

34. Mrs. Meyers makes a basil dish soap!

My fave!

[applegrove]

26. Vanilla. Citrus. I had a grandmother who was deaf and

blind and disabled and bored out of her mind in a nursing home as she approached 100. Her mind was all still there. I found a plastic Christmas decoration that had cinnamon scent. I don't know if she still had a sense of smell but she played along and thanked me profusely.

I also ended up running through the streets of Paris at about 4am one night. You'd round a corner and be hit with a bakery smell. There seemed to be one on every block.

[pdxflyboy]

27. I Love The Smell of Jet Fuel In The Morning.

It has been 6 years since my last whiff, regretfully.

[MustLoveBeagles]

28. Lavender

[malaise]

29. Fresh pine at Christmas

Haven’t had a tree in decades but always buy scraps from the vendors., make a wreath and put some is vases with flowers. My place must smell of fresh pine at Christmas - lovely memories - and I also love the cinnamon memories as well.😀

[BOSSHOG]

30. Copper tone sun tan lotion

Summers of 62 and 63 when my Grandpa took me to Atlantic City to cavort in the ocean. I always got lathered up. It still has the same great smell. Always brings back my Grandpa who died before we got to go in the Summer of 64. At least he didn’t get to go through the stinky collapse of the Phillies that fall. That was an awful smell.

[Climate Crusader]

31. Haven't smelled a thing since COVID.

Can't remember.

[The Blue Flower]

33. Moth balls

The smell takes my back to my Aunt Bess's house when I was little.

[MIButterfly]

37. Ha! I lived with my gramma for many years and she would

throw a handful of moth balls into my room from time to time and I had to search to find them so I could get rid of them!

My gramma did a lot of things that were, how should I say it? different.

[multigraincracker]

35. Photography dark room chemicals.

[debm55]

41. Thank you very much multigraincracker for sharing with us. It has a very distinct smell, somer would call it an odor. I

took a class in photography. When I read your post it brought me back to the time.

[MIButterfly]

36. Lilacs.

My gramma had lilac bushes in her backyard. We went in and out of her house through the side door and every time we did, the smell would come wafting over.

To this day, I Iove the smell of lilacs. Takes me back there every time.

[debm55]

40. I love the smell of lilac bushes, too. So sweet in the summer air Thank you MIbutterfly for sharing with us. You brought

memories of my wedding day standing in front of lilac bushes. with my husband, Rich.

[MIButterfly]

44. Oh, how wonderful that must have been at your wedding!

One of my bucket list wishes is to go up to Mackinac Island for their annual Lilac Festival. One of these days.....

[drmeow]

38. As a child

I spent the first decade or so of my life in the middle east. There was a middle eastern restaurant and market close to the first house my husband and I bought. The first time I walked in the door I stopped dead - it smelled like my childhood, something I hadn't smelled for 20 or 30 years. Every time I used to walk into that store I would stop and take a deep breath. It smelled so good (and yummy) - spices and middle eastern cooking.

[debm55]

39. Thank you so much for sharing you memories with us. I agree Middle Eastern food smells wonderful. Thank you drmeow

[enid602]

42. Chestnuts

Chestnuts roasting on the streets of Buenos Aires in July.

[debm55]

43. Thank you very much enid602

[Upthevibe]

45. debm55..........

Great post!

I have several favorite smells but since we're in the summer season I'll go with coconut. It smells like the suntan lotion I used growing up.

We lived right by the beach (the Gulf Coast) and when I was a kid we were there at least one out of three weekends (weather permitting).

At night the adults would sit around a campfire drinking their cocktails and probably discussing current events. My mom and dad were very progressive (anti-Viet Nam War, marched in Civil Rights protests, etc.) as were their friends.

In the meantime............. OMG the fun all us kids had running all over the beach could never be articulated! We were baby boomers so every family had an average of four kids. Those are some wonderful childhood memories....

debm55, some of your posts cause me (an I'm sure others as well) to really reflect. I know they initially are fun/foot-loose carefree questions but to me, sometimes they're much more. Like this one. It brought up really great memories and consequently, I feel uplifted..........Thank you...

[debm55]

47. Wow, thank you very much,Upthevibe. As a a abused child, not all of my memories were happy ones. I try to think of the

good times I had, sadly not a lotY with my family , but with cousins, friends and by myself. It makes me very happy that you took the time to share with us and me your memories. They then become part of my shared memories. You make my heart sing with this post., I like to mix it up--serious and funny. I am glad I uplifted you, Upthevibe, Love. Debbie

[flvegan]

48. Dolce & Gabbana Red. Takes me back to the 90's, makes me wonder

what she's doing now.

Nah, that's sort of not true. We're still, you know, friends.

[SARose]

51. Fajitas

Ohhhh man! First you hear that sizzle, and then smell those peppers and onions! Finally, the smoke from grilled beef, chicken, or shrimp hits you!

Oh yeah!

What? You ordered that grilled chicken salad?

😂

[LoisB]

52. Freshly turned dirt, sauteing onions, baking bread.

[3catwoman3]

54. So, so many.

- Fresh peaches and fresh oranges
- Lavender
- Lilacs
- The somewhat medicinal smell of geraniums when you cut them
- Garlic as it is being sauteed
- Miso soup from my 2 years living in Japan with the Air Force nurse corps
- The yeasty smell of bread baking
- One of my shampoos, NouNou by Davines, which has essence of tomato in it - it smells like a salad
- Iodine - my maternal grandparents were a nurse and a dentist, and in their big farm-style kitchen, there was a very tall, shallow triangular cupboard with many shelves, where first aid supplies were kept. It smelled like iodine.

[sestina]

55. The smell of

a campfire (memories of my husband),
the smell of freshly popped popcorn (memories of my dad),
the smell of horses (memories of county fairs when I walked through the horse barns)

[yellowdogintexas]

56. Dark fired tobacco barn smoke. Weird I know but bear with me:

Disclaimer: I hate tobacco, smoking, the whole shebang, even though practically everyone I knew growing up depended on it for income (most farmers there still do) However ...........

There is a variety of tobacco known as dark fired which is only grown in Western Kentucky and a little bit of Tennessee. When the tobacco is cut and spiked for hanging, it goes in a barn which is shut tight to keep out the light, but has vents across the top. Smouldering piles of sawdust made with aromatic wood are inside the dark barn (tended 24 hrs a day) Some of the woods used are cherry, peach, pecan, walnut, apple . When the barns are firing, the whole countryside smells divine, and because the smoke is so high in the air and is also rather wispy it isn't irritating.

If I travel to KY during curing season, that first smell lets me know I am home. I would buy a candle if it could duplicate tobacco barn!!

This tobacco is used for pipe and some chewing tobacco. If you go into a pipe shop the smell is very similar.

https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/red-kentucky-tobacco-curing-barn-covered-with-smoke-in-autumn-gm2203967023-621468175

[electric_blue68]

57. Visited The Southwest, where I ate chilli from time to time. Back in NYC I bought my first bottle of chilli powder.....

I was standing in the kitchen, facing the curtained window as I opened it.

The aroma hit my nose, and for a second I "saw" the scrubby, wide landscape, along with the carved weathered rocks of the high desert in front of me, before my kitchen reappeared around me! I was astonished, it was fleetlingly so vivid!

I would also "second" posters mentions of fresh cut grass, and Christmas pine trees. One speaks to me of sweet, green warmth, and flowers of Springtime, the other of Holiday glitter, and fun.

I'd also add chopped garlic sautéing in olive oil at home, or passing by restaurants. Yum.

[nuxvomica]

58. Lily of the Valley

It's a distinctive fragrance and my mom's favorite that she often wore going out. We even had a row of the little flowers growing along one side of the house. Reminds me of my mom and my childhood. Also lilac, as we had a huge bush growing in front of our house and some days the fragrance was overwhelming when you walked out the front door.

[catbyte]

59. I love the smell of onions frying in butter. In the spring, fresh violets.

For nostalgia, Old Spice. My dad used it on everything. If he had a sunburn, douse it in Old Spice, a cut, bring him the Old Spice, lol.

[Niagara]

60. Here's my crazy list...

Book pages
Peonies
Lilacs
Empty cigar box
Zippo lighters
New car smell
Coffee
Coconut sunscreen
Simple Green cleaner

[debm55]

61. Thank you very much I especially like the book smell, Lilacs and coconut suncreen Thank you very much my friend.

[AllaN01Bear]

62. the food smells of thanksgiving and christmas with family.