What scents/smells transport you back in time?

[ThirtyThrillionThreeTrees]

Anyone else find some scents evoke nostalgia and instant recall of happy memories from decades ago.

Here's mine:

1. Wild Roses - back to my grandparents garden playing with cousins on Sundays after mass
2. Rhubarb - other grandmother's house. She would always make us rhubarb tarts (loved it then, don't like it at all now)
3. Bodyshop White Musk - in a school friend's house getting ready for teenage discos
4. Hugo Boss Night - first love wore it. I cam smell it from miles away
5. Sambuca - first year of college

Partner thinks I'm bonkers, the only one he can come up with is the smell of burning reminds him of when their garage burnt down 🙁

Bonus points if you can guess my age from the last 3!!

Yes definitely! Whenever I smell Alien perfume and Charlie body spray it takes me straight back to high school 😂

Matey bubble bath
poster paints
old fashioned book shops

Dry ice, cigarettes and patchouli: indie/punk clubs of the 90's when I was young.

Roses - reminds me of making rose perfume at home and at my favourite Aunt’s house.

Custard- just reminds me of being a kid and Sunday pudding of apple pie and custard.

Oil of Ulay- reminds me of my Mum. It’s the only beauty product she used.

Tomato plants - make me think of my grandad.

Wallflowers in bloom, cut grass, sawn wood. My lovely Grandfather.

Astral cream - reminds me of my late mum, I keep a tub in my bedside drawer.
Sudocreme - it's just baby smell, isn't it? Happy times.
I find margarine has a very specific smell which reminds me of my grandmother's kitchen, unfortunately I can't abide the stuff so it's rare I smell it.

Love this.

Charlie Red was what my friend's older sisters had.

We used to think it was the absolute height of sophistication & glamour but for reasons I can't explain, we had to put up with White Musk as we were 3/4 years younger!

My mother used to wear Blue Grass.

yardleys English rose and TCP reminds me of my grandma
coal tar soap - my grandad
machine grease - my dad
Gooseberries- playing in the garden
grass and tarmac and cow muck - my school
Lynx Africa - my first slow dance
Dewberry and sunflowers perfume - I’m a 90s teen
Angel perfume - my early 20s

Bread dough rising in the airing cupboard (Granny N)
Tweed perfume and a lovely clean smell in the house. The smell of the pantry (Granny G)
Chanel No 5 (mum)
The gas lamps in my great aunt's caravan

All passed away now. ☹️

Max factor face powder, my granny

Giorgio Beverly hills and poison my twenties

Johnson baby oil, pink cream my babies

Aqua Manda bath stuff my childhood

CKOne
Malibu

42 years old?

Boiled milk-we used to heat it up at primary school for the teachers to have in their coffee at break time. It was a treat to get to do it! This was in the early 80s I must add...

43....but you're good!!

4711 eau de cologne - my granny
cucumber cleansing lotion or Astral cream- my mum
Consulate menthol cigarettes or Old Spice aftershave - my dad
Faberge Brut - my late brother
Lynx Africa spray - both my sons when they were teenagers

I LOVE the smells of Sudocrem, cut grass and baby powder

Wood shavings remind me of my dad's workshop.

Close! I turn 40 in a few weeks.

Kuros aftershave, I walked behind someone wearing it a couple of years ago and it instantly took me back to dating my first boyfriend, it was a really powerful memory!

Also, creosote-Grandparents house

Body shop dewberry-right back at secondary school

Cigarette smoke and Cussons Imperial Leather soap - my grandma 🙂

Malted milk biscuits - playschool. The whole village hall used to smell of them
Stale beer - the social club I used to have to go to with my mum when she cleaned it in the mornings
Panache perfume - my Nan
Old spice - my grandad

Armani diamonds
Red wine
Pink sands Yankee candle
Impulse body sprays

I was talking to a man today who runs a nursing home.

Not sure if there's any scientific proof but he was telling me that for dementia patients who are unsettled in new surroundings, the smell of childhood memories appears to give them comfort and more relaxed.

I could see how it works.