It is made from flour and oil basically, with a few other ingredients .. I think it's the flour that gives it that aroma.Then it may pass muster.
What gives it that aroma?
The smell of childhood
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jujube
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Re: chewing tar. The boards in the old sailing ships were chocked with tar. The sailors would chew wads of tar to keep their teeth clean and white. Thus sailors became known as "Tars".
Fritz
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All I have to do is see the picture of @LadyEmeraude profile pic and I can smell the Emeraude in my mind and it takes me immediately to childhood and the smell of my mother.
Stove Top stuffing takes me back to being a little girl at family reunions. Silly putty and Play doh all smells of childhood. That and freshly cut grass.
Stove Top stuffing takes me back to being a little girl at family reunions. Silly putty and Play doh all smells of childhood. That and freshly cut grass.
Dave03
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Cigar smoke always takes me back to my Uncle Ralph.
jujube
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I'll always remember the smell of the perfume Blue Grass. My mother would let me have a tiny dab of it behind my ears when she was putting it on.
Roses are the smell I associate with my grandma. She had a yard full of wild roses and always made sachet out of them when the petals were falling. Containers of sachet were all over the house and she always wore rose perfume. I don't wear it myself, but it's a very "comforting" aroma. I can remember sitting in church, sniffling, and she'd pull a tissue or a handkerchief out of her bra (we always called it "The Bank of Grandma" because she kept all sorts of things...money, tissues, bus passes..etc...in her bra) and wipe my nose with it. It always smelled like roses.
My beloved grandpa often had the faint smell of paint thinner on him. He was a painter and a wallpaper hanger by profession in his later days, so he was always dealing with paint thinner. I LOVE the smell of paint thinner.
My favorite uncle always was chewing gum or mints. When I get a whiff of peppermint or spearmint, I can remember him.
The fishy smell of tidal flats brings me back to childhood, visiting my grandparents in Virginia and driving to the beach. When you started to smell that odor, it meant the beach was only about 10 minutes further. Much excitement and arguing about who smelled it first.
Roses are the smell I associate with my grandma. She had a yard full of wild roses and always made sachet out of them when the petals were falling. Containers of sachet were all over the house and she always wore rose perfume. I don't wear it myself, but it's a very "comforting" aroma. I can remember sitting in church, sniffling, and she'd pull a tissue or a handkerchief out of her bra (we always called it "The Bank of Grandma" because she kept all sorts of things...money, tissues, bus passes..etc...in her bra) and wipe my nose with it. It always smelled like roses.
My beloved grandpa often had the faint smell of paint thinner on him. He was a painter and a wallpaper hanger by profession in his later days, so he was always dealing with paint thinner. I LOVE the smell of paint thinner.
My favorite uncle always was chewing gum or mints. When I get a whiff of peppermint or spearmint, I can remember him.
The fishy smell of tidal flats brings me back to childhood, visiting my grandparents in Virginia and driving to the beach. When you started to smell that odor, it meant the beach was only about 10 minutes further. Much excitement and arguing about who smelled it first.
CinnamonSugar
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Yep yep yep to these two!
jujube
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Vicks Vaporub. Now that's an important smell. It indicates that you had something serious enough to get the Vicks out, as opposed to "You're just trying to get out of going to school today....I can guarantee you'd be feeling better the moment the school bus passes by.....get dressed!"
MaidMarian
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The scent of a baby doll’s head.
The smell of creosote. They used to paint wooden poles near the water with it. I believe it’s banned now.
My mother’s perfume ( Chanel No.5) wafting about after her bath.
A cat’s head
Tar from a freshly tarred roof in the neighborhood.
The smell of creosote. They used to paint wooden poles near the water with it. I believe it’s banned now.
My mother’s perfume ( Chanel No.5) wafting about after her bath.
A cat’s head
Tar from a freshly tarred roof in the neighborhood.
oscash
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I remember that smell also. The men were re-surfacing the road, and I stepped in it and the sole of my shoe came apart. That was the end of my school shoes. Mother was not too impressed. Also, Vicks VapoRub, rubbed on to my chest. Mother's perfume, 4711 Au de Calonge, Christmas cake, just out of the oven.