smells from childhood...

[swee'pea99]

Tobacco smoke, everywhere. To all you smokers, thanks for the Asthma.

Staffrooms in schools always *reeked* of it. Almost as bad as the girls' toilets (when the door opened, you could see only legs...everything from the waist up was fog.)

 

[XmisterIS]

That smell of industrial-strength disinfectant that was used liberally on all floors at school. It seemed to be the same smell whichever school one went to.

 

[Ludwig]

The smell of powder poster paint that we used at primary school.
Plimsols.
The shiny sole of your slippers
Newly mown grass on school sports day
New text books
Teachers with breath that smelt of coffee.

 

[ColinJ]

The smell of powder poster paint that we used at primary school.

Blimey, it's almost half a century since I last smelt it but I recalled it immediately when I read that!

When I was in my late teens, most of the girls I fancied used to douse themselves with Patchouli. Nearly 40 years on, a Hebden Bridge hippy type walks past and the faintest whiff of Patchouli brings back memories of being 18!

Speicher - you went to the same school as the girls I'm talking about - were you a Patchouli-using teen?

 

[tyred]

That special smell of sun baked black vinyl when you get into a 1970s Ford after it's been sitting in the sun all day.

A good chance to fry your legs if you were wearing shorts.

 

[colly]

The smell of leather car seats.

We never had a car but my mates dad had a Humber Super Snipe
with fantastic slidey leather bench seats in.

Leather in cars today smells different somehow.