The smell of certain places

hollydolly said:
I love the smell of Play-doh...haven't smelled it for years..I don't know what the active ingredient is..

I like the smell of school polish but I don't know what it is.. and having known a couple of people who were school cleaners who I helped out on a couple of occasions, I never saw any polish out of the ordinary
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We never had cleaners at our school Hollydolly, the pupils were the ones that did that. Every afternoon we had to make sure all the bins were cleared into the incinerator, where Mr Smith used to burn all the rubbish. At the end of school term, we had to bring a tin of shoe polish and polish our desks until they shone, and you could see your faces in them, and after lunches a bell would ring and everyone had to run around and pick up any papers from the school yard. Talk about child labour?
 
oscash said:
We never had cleaners at our school Hollydolly, the pupils were the ones that did that. Every afternoon we had to make sure all the bins were cleared into the incinerator, where Mr Smith used to burn all the rubbish. At the end of school term, we had to bring a tin of shoe polish and polish our desks until they shone, and you could see your faces in them, and after lunches a bell would ring and everyone had to run around and pick up any papers from the school yard. Talk about child labour?
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OMG... are you serious ?... yes we had to tidy up.. but clean ?..noooooooo !:eek:
 
Experienced over a lifetime.

Smells I liked like so many others: sun dried bedding, freshly mowed lawns, roses, fresh baked bread, last but not least and sadly out of style now: the subtle smell of perfume and cologne!

Smells I hated: living close to a tannery, walking daily past a beer brewery, smell of rotten fish in the harbour, stale smoke, and worst of all the smell of the nursing home I visited on a regular basis, the sickening smell of urine and feces! Dear God, let me die before I ever end up in one of those places!
 
Am always sticking my nose into flowers both along urban residential streets and out in natural areas. Flower fragrances vary considerably from species to species and even on same plants. Flowers like roses are most fragrant during warm day hours a day or three right after buds open.

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In Southern California vast fields of freshly blooming California poppies mixed with California goldfields have a most wonderful fragrance.

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Old Salt said:
Smells I hated: living close to a tannery, walking daily past a beer brewery, smell of rotten fish in the harbour, stale smoke, and worst of all the smell of the nursing home I visited on a regular basis, the sickening smell of urine and feces!
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Why do you think perfume is out of style? Not for anyone I know. Now, you've brought back a memory to me... my daddy worked in a tannery for a few years. I can't say that I remember the particular smell, but I know that it was horrid and made us gag. Considering how he smelled when he got home, I have no idea how those people stood to work there... but you had a family support in a small town and there wasn't much choice.
 
David777 said:
Am always sticking my nose into flowers both along urban residential streets and out in natural areas. Flowers vary considerably from species to species and even on same plants. Flowers like roses are most fragrant for a day or three right after buds open.
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Nice pics, David! I stopped sticking my nose into flowers when I nearly inhaled a bumblebee. But I know exactly what you mean from when I used to do the same... nothing like it. @David777
 
The principal called me to his office, told me to go home immediately for the day and take my coat with me and never bring it to school again. It was a native-made fur parka hanging securely and privately in my closed locker, but apparently according to him it stunk up the whole school. It was native tanned (urine tanned) and a masterpiece of art, sealskin and red wolf and feather art, gifted to me by my grandmother. It smelled fine to me.
 
At your supermarket produce melon section.

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CallMeKate said:
Why do you think perfume is out of style? Not for anyone I know. Now, you've brought back a memory to me... my daddy worked in a tannery for a few years. I can't say that I remember the particular smell, but I know that it was horrid and made us gag. Considering how he smelled when he got home, I have no idea how those people stood to work there... but you had a family support in a small town and there wasn't much choice.
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Oh, how I wish I lived where you live! :) I haven't smelled perfume in decades. It seems every public place wants you to be scent free here and we didn't really mingle all that often when my wife was still alive, and going by my experience, Baptists didn't believe in wearing perfume either, even though I've never seen anything written (or heard) about that subject! :) I get nostalgic thinking about the time I brought a brand name perfume home from Greenock, Scotland, where we got it considerably cheaper than in Canada. What a wonderful scent!

As an aside, most of us also bought a whole box of bangers (sausages) on that trip and had them confiscated and destroyed when we got home because meat products could not be imported by us at the time! Even our captain had to have his destroyed because he, too, was unaware of the regulations. A heartbreaker!
 
Old Salt said:
Oh, how I wish I lived where you live! :) I haven't smelled perfume in decades.
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Okay, you may like this idea, or it may seem incredibly silly to you, but have you considered just buying a perfume or cologne you enjoy and using a couple of squirts as a room/air scent freshener? I've done it... aromatherapy and it's wonderful to have my favorite scents in the air when I want them. I don't do scented candles, so it's perfect.
 
hollydolly said:
you know what...I don't think I've ever smelled clover.. how would you describe it , Lois?:)
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Holly, It is the freshest, cleanest aroma found in farmlands and in lawns everywhere. If a lawn is freshly mown that's loaded with clover, you know it immediately. If you drive to a farm with many cows, most have lots of clover, and you can detect it immediately. You can even taste it in new milk from a cow.
 
Lewkat said:
Holly, It is the freshest, cleanest aroma found in farmlands and in lawns everywhere. If a lawn is freshly mown that's loaded with clover, you know it immediately. If you drive to a farm with many cows, most have lots of clover, and you can detect it immediately. You can even taste it in new milk from a cow.
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hmm... well maybe I have smelled it , and not realised, being surrounded by farmland here :unsure:
 
dilettante said:
When I was small we got milk deliveries. Milk was left in an aluminum box lined with asbestos panels. For whatever reason it had a distinct smell, no not sour milk or anything like that.

I can still remember that smell and thinking of it takes me right back there.
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funny you should mention this. When I was still at school between the ages of 12 & 14 , I did a milk delivery of 400 houses from 4am to just before time to dash home and change for school.. at all seasons of the year.. and in summer in particular our hands would stink with the smell from the combination of milk, bottles and doubtless the silver milk tops.. whatever it was it wasn't a pleasant smell.. and when I think of it I can smell it still
 
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CallMeKate said:
Okay, you may like this idea, or it may seem incredibly silly to you, but have you considered just buying a perfume or cologne you enjoy and using a couple of squirts as a room/air scent freshener? I've done it... aromatherapy and it's wonderful to have my favorite scents in the air when I want them. I don't do scented candles, so it's perfect.
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LOL. Great minds think alike! I still have most of a small bottle of my wife's favourite perfume left, somewhere in a suitcase and have been tempted to do exactly what you suggest. I have always chickened out because I didn't want my daughter to think I was effeminate! In any case, after eight years there's probably not much of a scent left anyway! :LOL:
 

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