I was thinking about smells

[TheOtherRick]

Familiar memory invoking odors some are common fresh-cut grass baking bread, one that I love is the smell of water on hot asphalt when a summer shower falls on pavement that has been baking under the sun. How about you what smell brings out memories, good ones please.

 

[_Apple_]

Irises and water lilies remind me of my grandmother.

 

[squatting dog]

Fresh cut hay field, nitro-methane, sage in bloom, diesel fumes in the city. (weird I know)

 

[AnnieA]

Fresh cut hay field, nitro-methane, sage in bloom, diesel fumes in the city. (weird I know)

Very similar! The smell of soil from a freshly plowed field, diesel/tractor shed smells, clean air after a hot summer thunderstorm.

 

[TheOtherRick]

Turned Earth I like that. I hadn't thought of that one.

 

[Mobilman44]

Lilacs......... May weekend afternoons sitting on the porch with my Dad, reading the papers.

 

[TheOtherRick]

Fresh cut hay field, nitro-methane, sage in bloom, diesel fumes in the city. (weird I know)

Diesel from buses accelerating after you get off.

 

[TheOtherRick]

Lilacs......... May weekend afternoons sitting on the porch with my Dad, reading the papers.

Or the smell of newspaper itself the ink and pulp that's a forgotten smell.

 

[Kaila]

Great thread idea. I enjoyed reading all the posts in it.

 

[aei]

This burning toast smell in nostrils bit there is nothing burning in the house.

 

[chic]

I love the smell of freshly cut grass under a lawn sprinkler in June. Not too specific.

 

[C50]

Barn smells, and yes I'm even talking about manure. Instantly evokes memories.

Red dot powder sparked by a Federal primer out of an old paper AA shell. (My old trap shooting load)

Fresh cut lumber at a saw mill

Castrol two cycle oil

 

[Pinky]

Mimeograph ink on paper.
Cinnamon.

 

[Remy]

I have heard that smells can evoke memories more strongly than sight and sound. I think that is correct.

I like the smell of the ocean.

 

[Buckeye]

Cigarette smoke, although I've never been a cigarette smoker.

Exhaust fumes and the related noises of my Dad's 1950s dirt track race car on a hot summer evening.

Wild ginger growing along the road side on the Big Island

 

[seadoug]

Anything frying because my relatives were from the South and they fried everything. The other smell is barbecue.

One other smell would be suntan lotion because it reminds me of growing up baking in the sun on the beach in Florida.

Great thead!

 

[Muskrat]

Horse sweat. Puppy breath. Hot grass, cut hay.

 

[Gary O']

How about you what smell brings out memories, good ones please.

Sea air
Slow, muddy creek water
Diesel and even gas fumes
Gas itself
Gun smoke
Hung laundry

An old motel room at the beach
with the aroma of black mold and stale cigarette smoke

Coffee perking from an old pot on the campfire

Grampa
He had a stale smell about him that I kinda enjoyed
(I might now have that)

There's many other smells that rouse my memories, but those first came to mind

 

[jujube]

Mothballs.....smells like my Grandma's closet, and that closet was a wondrous place full of wondrous things.

 

[TheOtherRick]

How about old books or maybe an old bookstore where you open a book that hasn't been cracked open for years.

 

[squatting dog]

Exhaust fumes and the related noises of my Dad's 1950s dirt track race car on a hot summer evening.

 

[Gary O']

.smells like my Grandma's closet

and Gramma's purse
There's just something about the scent of a half stick of double mint gum and purse dirt

 

[911]

Fresh cut hay field, nitro-methane, sage in bloom, diesel fumes in the city. (weird I know)

I liked the smell of nitromethane also. Also, alcohol, Back in the day when I drag raced, I would sometimes used nitromethane, but most of the Top Fuel Dragsters used nitro methane. It runs hotter and gives the engine a bit more power.

We would do burnouts using Clorox Bleach at the starting line to get the tires hot and sticky, so when the Christmas Tree would turn Green, your car wouldn't spin its wheels and you would lose time. As a driver, you just had to make sure your car didn't drift over the line and the Tree would show Red.

 

[TheOtherRick]

Mimeograph ink on paper.
Cinnamon.

You're taking me back to grade school now.

 

[Timewise 60+]

The smell of Aspen and Pines when you are in the mountains of Colorado. Usually, a light wind carries the smell to you as you approach a stand of Aspen...this makes my adrenalin flow, as I was raised in the mountains of Colorado...