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25. my favorite smells

Thu Oct 24, 2013, 02:55 PM

Oct 2013

(some still are)

playdoh
the smell of a local bakery baking bread, onion stuffing, anything
paste
mimeographed paper
burning leaves (now illegal--some new people in the neighborhood have been doing it last year & this year)
box of crayons
the first time the heat is turned on for the season
my mom cooking anything: steak, turkey, meatloaf, chicken (i loved her cooking)
the christmas tree
my dad's clean starched shirts from the dry cleaners
gasoline
freshly mowed lawn
my mom's face cream
my grandma's closet with a mixture of all her perfumes on clothes
crazy foam (for bathtime)
juicy fruit gum, doublemint gum, bubble gum

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20 best smells from childhood [View all] Tanuki Oct 2013 OP

And many times they would still be half wet. ScreamingMeemie Oct 2013 #1

I remember there had been an overdose in the community and the teacher was still Baitball Blogger Oct 2013 #6

Yes!! Myrina Oct 2013 #21

Mimeographs smelled like ink Brother Buzz Oct 2013 #2

The smell of a just struck match. nt rrneck Oct 2013 #3

I think my #1 smell was my mother's perfume, B Calm Oct 2013 #4

I always liked the smell of skunk aint_no_life_nowhere Oct 2013 #5

You ever thought about driving a truck for a living? B Calm Oct 2013 #7

Up close... pipi_k Oct 2013 #16

Ah the smell of the mosquito fogging truck,,,,,,, benld74 Oct 2013 #8

We're probably going to eventually die from that. nolabear Oct 2013 #11

The old DDT truck Art_from_Ark Oct 2013 #36

We rode our bikes in the wake of the truck. tonekat Oct 2013 #54

the smell of fresh baked bread Bombero1956 Oct 2013 #9

Good pick! Grandma always made the best B Calm Oct 2013 #10

Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2013 #12

Leaded Gasoline Ron Obvious Oct 2013 #13

Strange, but true... pipi_k Oct 2013 #15

I didn't think the gasoline smell itself was so good, Art_from_Ark Oct 2013 #37

I loved that too! tonekat Oct 2013 #55

gas had some appeal when I was a kid... handmade34 Oct 2013 #24

I also pipi_k Oct 2013 #14

The smell of your new flannel shirt when you come back from summer break for fall semester pinboy3niner Oct 2013 #17

Baling hay. Better than lawn mowing. sinkingfeeling Oct 2013 #18

My list... AnneD Oct 2013 #19

Old-timey Old Spice was great Art_from_Ark Oct 2013 #38

A person's AnneD Oct 2013 #42

go to an Indian store... awoke_in_2003 Oct 2013 #62

Thanksgiving dinner, fresh cut Christmas tree, linens that have dried on the clothesline ... Myrina Oct 2013 #20

The smell of kerosene as we refilled the lamps each afternoon... Shampoobra Oct 2013 #22

Waking up to the smell of bacon and eggs. Still Blue in PDX Oct 2013 #23

my favorite smells orleans Oct 2013 #25

The smell of the woods during a spring rain LiberalEsto Oct 2013 #26

Blueberry muffins cooking in the oven. applegrove Oct 2013 #27

My grandma's perfume The Velveteen Ocelot Oct 2013 #28

My mother's chocolate chip cookies baking. Brigid Oct 2013 #29

Only Las Vegas DUer's know of this... Callmecrazy Oct 2013 #30

No, that smell is in Tucson too. panader0 Oct 2013 #32

Well, my top 4 would be ...Burning leaves in the fall... HereSince1628 Oct 2013 #31

Roasted chestnuts from NYC street vendors. White paste glue amerikat Oct 2013 #33

Applesauce ConcernedCanuk Oct 2013 #34

My baseball glove Broken_Hero Oct 2013 #35

cotton candy! elleng Oct 2013 #39

Old Spice.... mwdem Oct 2013 #40

At the very top of my list would be Art_from_Ark Oct 2013 #41

you hit all of mine and I'm lucky I still live where I smell these things.... erinlough Oct 2013 #56

My grandfather smoked Dutch Masters Art_from_Ark Oct 2013 #57

The smell of Maxwell House Coffee when Mom opened a fresh can... pink-o Oct 2013 #43

When the breadman opened the back of his truck antiquie Oct 2013 #44

That glue that came in giant jars FloridaJudy Oct 2013 #45

Ooof! Gormy Cuss Oct 2013 #53

Sun-dried laundry! n/t FloridaJudy Oct 2013 #46

pile of leaves KurtNYC Oct 2013 #47

Passing by a fresh-squeezed open-air orange juice stand HERVEPA Oct 2013 #48

my Mom's cabbage blueamy66 Oct 2013 #49

I WONDER HOW many people chose baby powder? yuiyoshida Oct 2013 #50

new Barbie dolls riverwalker Oct 2013 #51

tomatoes being canned at the Del Monte plant in East Oakland. mulsh Oct 2013 #52

the smell of Florida air just after a heavy rain downpour, so clean, so fresh, I loved it nt steve2470 Oct 2013 #58

Mr. Bubble, MoreGOPoop Oct 2013 #59

The smell of new hay in the hay barn. texanwitch Oct 2013 #60

I remember the teacher passing mimeographed sheets of the times tables. texanwitch Oct 2013 #61

several blueknight Oct 2013 #63

wet mittens on the radiator MissMillie Oct 2013 #64

My grandmother making apple strudel in Vienna. hobbit709 Oct 2013 #65

Play-doh Quantess Oct 2013 #66

The crackly smell of ozone just before it starts raining. alphafemale Oct 2013 #67