I was thinking about smells

[hawkdon]

As a kidling my older brother taught me how to do
leather tooling, loved the smell of that wet leather....

 

[TheOtherRick]

As a kidling my older brother taught me how to do
leather tooling, loved the smell of that wet leather....

That took me back to sixth grade when my best friend would deeply inhale the smell of his baseball glove this was just around the corner from you in OP.

 

[helenbacque]

I love the aroma of freshly peeled citrus, particularly orange.

 

[jimintoronto]

Hawes paste floor wax, and lemon oil polish for the hard wood dining room table with it's 2 additional inserts for big family dinners. The sound of Mum using the old 2 buffer electric floor polisher on the strip hard wood floors in our 1903 built house in West Toronto. Turpentine used as a paint remover. Linseed oil to work into my leather catcher's mitt that we called a Decker. Shopsy's hot dogs at the Maple Leaf stadium, watching the AAA Toronto Maple Leafs in the mid 50's, down by Lake Ontario. The clacking sound as a reel ran out in the projection booth at the local Odeon cinema. The smell at the YMCA swimming pool first thing in the morning. The smell of cap gun blanks when we played Cow boys and Indians.

Later as a young adult. The rich smell of Castrol R 50- weight racing oil, and the fruity smell of the alcohol fuel that the super modifieds burned at the CNE speedway. A girl's perfume that I liked, a lot. Turkish tobacco in US brand smokes. Nesbitt's Orange pop, and warm salted toasted cashews in a bag for 25 cents. Toasted Danish pastries, split in 2, buttered and heated on the flat top grill at the JB Bus Stop cafe. Swamp juice which was a mix of coke, 7up and Ginger Ale in a frosted mug at A &W. Teen Burgers at A &W.

Now as an old man. Popcorn from the micro wave, my shaving soap, the smell of Butter Tarts, and the intro music for Hockey Night In Canada on TSN and the Oilers fans singing OH Canada on a Saturday night. All 19,000 of them in the arena giving it their best and loudest national anthem rendition. And the 2 minutes of silence at 11 AM on November the 11th to honor our fallen veterans. Sounds and smells of my life over the years. JimB.

 

[Nathan]

The smell of the Pinion pines and Sugar pines, and all the high chaparral grasses, bushes and blooms.

 

[Gary O']

Hawes paste floor wax, and lemon oil polish for the hard wood dining room table

Reminds me

Didn't know what that smell was, when I was a kid

But, found the aroma and the bottle a few decades ago
Not sure if it really does anything for my wood furniture, but it does a whole lot for me

 

[Jules]

Mimeograph ink on paper.
Cinnamon.

Did you work in a school? I still recall the scent of the paper my mother used to prep her sheets prior to them going in the mimeograph. Absolutely no mistakes permitted on what she wrote. Her penmanship was perfect.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

When I was a kid, during the week, we, all, had different schedules, but Sunday morning was going to church day. I remember waking up to the smell of coffee percolating in the pot. Back then, we had "percolators" that gave a lot of steam and coffee aroma. Today, with the drip type coffee makes, there's not that huge cloud of steam. That smell was home, breakfast and family all in one.

 

[Mrs. Robinson]

Eucalyptus trees,especially after a rain. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and there were an abundance of those trees. You would smell them every day on the walk to school-especially after a rain.

We moved from the Bay in 1991 and in 2004 bought a home that had a large grove of eucalyptus that had been planted on the back of the 11 acres. We moved there in May and it didn`t rain for several months,but the first morning that it did,I walked out the door and was hit with a smell that smelled like "home".

We sold that home in 2012 but bought right down the road and I noticed the new owners cut most of the trees down. Turns out those groves of eucalyptus that so many people planted during the energy crisis of the 70s are terrible fire hazards during wildfires,which removing them probably saved that house in 2018 when that entire area burned.

 

[officerripley]

Turns out those groves of eucalyptus that so many people planted during the energy crisis of the 70s are terrible fire hazards during wildfires,which removing them probably saved that house in 2018 when that entire area burned.

Also, there are more than a few of us who are very allergic to eucalyptus and abso despise the smell of them, ugh.

 

[Rossana]

The smells of Florida: hot and humid summer days, heavy summer rains, sea air, the smell of the orange groves, the musty swamps, the pine tree forests, the magnolia trees, the jasmine, the gardenia.

In general the smells of: the campground fire, vanilla, peach, lavender, and rose.

Such an interesting thread to read.