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!!

The pink sands Yankee candle is gorgeous, but it's traumatised my mum as it's the one she was burning when the whole family came down with Norovirus. That's all she can think of now 😣😂

The smell of roast beef cooking reminds me of visiting my grandparents on Sundays in the 60s. Walking along the landing to their flat smelt of all the dinners

Gas and boiled cabbage - my grandparents house.
M & S Frankincense and Myrrh candle smells exactly like the box our Christmas decorations were kept in.
Cinnabar perfume - the scent of my wild and mid-spent youth. My first serious boyfriend wore Aramis. I found him on social media recently. He looks like a northerner about to start the fight at a wedding.

Bronnley lemon verbena soap - my aunt
Palmolive green soap - my gran
Cigarettes and imperial leather - my dad
Carbolic soap - the red stuff - school
Lysol and white linen - my mum (nurse)

Funny how soap features a lot😄

Coal fire - not the smoke outside but the smell of the fire indoors. It takes me straight back to my grandparents, as does Dettol, Pears Soap and 4711.

Cornflakes and a banana - takes me to my other grandmother. Rowntrees Tootie Frooties - such a specific memory! I remember being at my grandparents' house with my cousins and we were all in the garden with Grandad and we each had a packet of Tootie Frooties in a plastic cup. We had them in cups in case the packets tore. This would have been in the early/mid 60's because they moved house in 1967.

Brut - going to the school ball with my boyfriend in 1978 (married over 40 years now)

Cut grass - summer days in infant school when we could all go out and play randomly on sunny days.

Old Spice - DF

Vaseline deoderant and Gucci Envy - my university room mate.

Nina Ricci L'Aire de Temps - my mum

Savlon and Camay soap - bathtime as kids

Coal smoke and bacon - my grandparents house

That odd beery, damp, tobacco smell nightclubs had at the end of the night - my teens and twenties.

Flowering Privet hedges - i grew up in a flat in London with my dad, but there was a huge Privet hedge on the ground floor. I used to pick it for my Stick Insects.. the smell takes me back there immediately, and makes me think of him.
He died when i was 13.

Fahrenheit mens fragrance...takes me back to my college years and my first proper boyfriend.

There was a similar thread a few weeks back and for me it's the smell of turf burning on an open fire. We used to go on holiday to Mayo and got the Holyhead-Dun Laoghaire ferry. Dad used to stop at Mullingar to stretch his legs and that was when the smell hit you for the first time and you knew you were in Ireland.

Really strong cheap hairspray... used to use cans and cans of the stuff on a morning before school then top it up at lunchtime

Joop aftershave... reminds me of my late dad

Aftershock/any cinnamon alcohol... don't even go there 🤮

Some sort of really strong soap in a black wrapper with like an oriental print on it... my nana used to keep it in her drawers at home but I've no idea what it was!

This made ME a bit teary.

Having just received a bouquet of flowers, I've realised the smell of carnations takes me back to being in Scotland, as a five year old, holding the brides flowers.