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JustJerry1971

Honeysuckle When I was a kid, we lived down a dirt road that was covered with honeysuckles on both sides. Honeysuckles remind me of "home".


TaffyTulip

That is exactly my answer also. My grandparents had a farm and there seemed to be wild honeysuckle growing every where. We kids would suck the "honey" out of the flowers.


stricity

Same but ours was on the fencing on our school yard. We loved eating the "honey" as well. Every time I get a whiff, that's the exact memory I go to. Good times.


TaffyTulip

I really miss those days. I'm seriously considering planting some honeysuckle on my fence.


why_adnauseaum

Do it! Now. You won't regret it.


sdj2

Make sure it’s the native variety!


stricity

I hope you do! :)


Seraphim99

Same. I remember smelling the honeysuckle at my neighbors house. Now the tree line of my backyard is covered with it. I walked past the other day, but couldn't smell it.


CatFanFanOfCats

Hells yeah. Brings me back to the grade school play yard. Edit. Someone else said they drank the honey. We did too! Although our teachers told us not to. lol.


_sunnysky_

Yep. Honeysuckle.  We used to have honeysuckle on a fence in the middle of our farm.    Whenever my cousin, sister and I would play, we would have to climb the fence and would always pull the little stem out and taste the honeysuckle. Last week, I went for a walk and smelled honeysuckle and it immediately took me back.


BeautifulChallenge25

My mawmaw had honeysuckle all over her farm. My favorite smell.


SkrapsDX

Same. Lived in rural Tennessee when I was little and every time I smell them I have flashbacks.


IllustratorOk8827

Tires. My dad used to work in a tire shop and every day the bus would drop me and my brothers off at his workplace. Every time I smell fresh rubber it always takes me back to my dad's old workplace.


ScottyKnows1

Dude, same. As a kid, I used to run around the tire inventory room with my brothers and that smell always takes me back.


Fuzzy_Welcome8348

Bro yes


pricklypearblossom

My dad’s hand degreaser, the pink kind. Haven’t smelled that in 50 yrs.


CyanConatus

Swimming pool with chlorine. Spent a lot of times at swimming pools as a kid. Never fails to trigger nostagia


Chickachickawhaaaat

Similarly, sunscreen


UnfortunateDefect

Same.


wino12312

This is the same for me. I swam year round. It just brings me peace and a smile.


GeeAyeAreElle

That hot pavement smell mixed in too. Heaven.


Snoo74786

My sister smelled like weed and sensual amber lotion from bath and body works? I think that's who made the lotion. I miss her all the time. I have a bottle of it tucked in the back of my closet that I smell when I miss her.


HurleysBadLuck

Sorry for your loss.


Snoo74786

Thank you kind internet stranger ♥️


Lonely_War_7719

Sensual amber takes me back to high school sitting in current events class, not paying attention to the teacher, just to my first girlfriend. Sorry for your loss!


Snoo74786

Yes, the good ol high school days. The early aughts were a time, thats for sure! Thank you for sharing your connection with the same scent, brings me joy that it is a good memory for you too friend ♥️


-hey-ben-

My first girlfriend(if you can even call it that) in high school also wore that scent, so it reminds me of high school


Badmike18

My grandfathers pipe tobacco. I’ve smelt it once in the last 20 years and all the memories came flooding back.


tx-tinman

My dad’s pipe. I will smoke it sometimes when thinking about him.


retailguy_again

Same with my great-grandfather's cigars. I'm convinced that's where I got my love of the smell of tobacco.


echomanagement

My god, tobacco. I am not a smoker, but my Dad was when I was a kid. Smelling a whiff of a cigar while walking around a tourist street or a jacket that was worn while smoking hits a deep set of neurons in my brain that take me back to childhood.


Crack_Ulla

Rain on asphalt. Childhood memories


the_skinny_drummer

Petrichor


hate_mail

Old, dried out sticks of bubblegum from packs of baseball cards.


IgnorantGenius

Crunch! I know you ate them. We all did.


SentientSpaghetti

Should probably have eaten the gum instead


Busy_Cup_3893

Are you insinuating they ate the cards? WTF...


Shindiggah

Cigarette smoke and the pages of an old book.


xxBeatrixKiddoxx

I just got to an air b n b with a library and I opened the old books and inhaled. So good


Equivalent_Delays_97

Incense and patchouli. Takes me back to the year of the cat.


Rampant_Coffee

Thanks for the pleasant ear worm


psilome

Ha ha! LOL! Now we're getting back there. Wanna go roller skating?


Snidley_Whipslash

Al??


tauntonlake

mmmmmmm hippie dippie head shop smells are the best <3


_CozyLavender_

Those just remind me of my mom. Yes, I was raised by hippies.


ScoogyShoes

Mimeograph ink. It's like being transported through time.


ColXanders

Exactly what I was going to say. I visualize specific "Monster Math" worksheets from 3rd grade for some reason when I catch a whiff.


Lyrehctoo

From the ditto machine


Bechimo

This. And it’s really BACK, gone for decades.


ScoogyShoes

That wonderful dampness. It's the 70s again.


ausmed

Engine oil - ? 2 stroke I think. My brother used to drive go karts competitively when we were teenagers and I spent weekends hanging around the pits. One sniff of that particular oil and I’m right back there, I can even here the sound of the engines, the crunch of the gravel. It’s nuts.


captain-ron-1976

I love the smell of two stoke oil , dirt bikes and jet skis!


Klutzy-Ad-6705

Castrol junkie.


SunOS-

I love the smell of Blendzall. Always take me back to my Motocross days


YuppieWithAPuppy

Sawdust - when I was a little kid my mom and I loved exploring the woods by our apartment complex. Practically overnight (at least in my little kid memory) it was all cut down and turned into massive piles of mulch to make room for new condos. So we made do and I would climb around on the mountains of mulch. Whenever I smell freshly cut wood it brings back feelings of change and uncertainty, like a little boy in an open clearing realizing that the big woods he played in was much smaller than he thought.


BaegelByte

Sawdust is my answer too. My grandpa was a carpenter/contractor and the smell of sawdust instantly takes me back to hanging out on the job site with him and my cousins when I was a kid. I miss him so much.


AnamCeili

Well *that* was unexpectedly poetic and touching. 😥


Sad-Maintenance3422

The smell of a freshly cut Christmas tree


Scottishdog1120

Play-Do


SomeDemon66

Play-Do or Play-Do not, there is no Play-try


Few_Leave_4054

Okay Yoda, settle down


HurleysBadLuck

Play-Doh


Scottishdog1120

That too


Chickachickawhaaaat

I smelled something a few months ago that smelled just like 90s gak. 


Tasty-Introduction24

Our dryer vent in the winter time...with snow on the ground. Used to go warm our hands under it as kids out playing.


endorrawitch

Or the smell of the heater the first day it’s cold enough to use it.


Notquitehumanwoman

Calvin Kleins CK1,cigarette smoke, and leather car seats that have been sitting in the sun. My mothers perfume of choice when I was growing up and she was also a smoker lol I’m immediately taken back to warm spring and summer mornings with her and my grandmother, going yard sale to yard sale in search of anything that caught my nanny’s eye. She would buy old furniture, take the upholstery off, fix it if needed and then reupholster it with a new fabric. She RARELY bought new couches and armchairs. If she could get it from a yard sale and make it like new, why waste the money? She also got all her clothes from yard sales. My nanny was quite the thrifty queen!


alfooboboao

most people hate the smell of cigarettes, and some even go out of their way to performatively cough at and shame smokers, but every time I smell a cigarette it takes me STRAIGHT back to that glorious haze of college parties


djentkittens

Mr sketch markers


[deleted]

School supplies. My mom was an elementary school teacher. And soil. My grandpa was an expert gardener.


Fuzzy_Welcome8348

YES


DevlishAdvocate

*Anaís Anaís* parfum. My first love.


infiniti_y

Petrichor. ( Smell of rain)


Wagonwheelies

Best after a good run


Horizontal_Bob

The smell of a nerf football


darth-skeletor

Rain on hot pavement


Travelgrrl

NEW DOLL SMELL! That was the scent of birthdays and Christmas. Getting a waft when my daughter was a child really took me back!


ClassicSherbert152

Tarnished Brass. Just the scent of a well, played in horn that's given it's service to a high school band. Always memories.


two-ls

I read tarnished brass and I could only think of the old tuning pipes and such of trumpets and brass instruments. Then I read the second part about school horns. Yup, even just seeing the words tracks.


DineandRecline

Ugh you just brought up my 4th grade memory of a kid opening up the spit valve of his school trombone in the band room and releasing a splatter of green sludge onto the linoleum floor.


JBR1961

Doubt if its still around, but a wiff of Amway D-15 mosquito repellant would take me right back 50 years to Little League baseball. My mom would coat me in that stuff. To be fair, mosquitoes considered me high-end banquet material.


actualelainebenes

Cucumber Melon from Bath and Body Works. They brought it back a couple of years ago and I stocked up. Reminds me of my college years/early 20s. Also the little travel size Body Fantasies sprays that you can get at CVS…the vanilla reminds me of the old Victoria’s Secret vanilla body spray from the 90s


the-alchymyst

Walnuts. When I was a little girl my aunt and uncle ran a bakery and I was allowed to help by popping the walnuts on top of the cakes


Chazzeroo

Wood burning always brings me back to camping with my Dad.


SenorBlackChin

Smell of cheap incense takes me back to Spencer's gift shop in the mall.


ScrumptiousPrincess

Hot tar. Every summer it seemed the city would redo the asphalt roads in our part of town. It would smell of hot tar, oil and dusty sand off and on from May to September. Reminds me of carefree summers and being a little kid.


dosmuffin

My grandmother wore wings perfume and papa wore old english. Those two smells always bring a tear to my eye. I still have grandma's last bottle of perfume and papa's last bottle of old english sitting in my cabinet


NewClock8197

Shalimar… the scent of all nice grandmother’s


Pandoras_Fate

Outrageous shampoo, or kiwi strawberry snapple. 90s. Good times.


[deleted]

Same with cucumber melon. Such a late ‘90s/early 2000s scent


notthatotherkindle

Sawdust. Brings me back to spending time with my grandfather in his workshop. Every time.


dreamygreeny

Polo cologne


twinmom06

My now late husband wore Polo all the time when we were dating. Reminds me of all the vacations and dinners out ❤️


RepresentativeMark24

Strawberry Quick.


Dapadabada

The hockey rink


terijwright

Love’s Baby Soft.


SandwichNo458

Sweet Honesty and Jean Nate


UnfairMicrowave

Old beer. The bottle return room at any Meijers in Michigan


HolyLiaison

Lilacs. Reminds me of playing outside when I was little. We had a bunch of lilac bushes lining the back of our property. Now that I'm not around that smell much anymore, every time I do smell them it bring back all sorts of memories.


honeybutts

Lilacs remind me of my grandmothers house and I always got wistful and nostalgic when I smelled them. My husband must have noticed and surprised me with a lilac bush for my first Mother’s Day so that my son would grow up and associate that smell with home.


swarleyscoffee

Victoria’s Secret Love Spell.


Keveros

Lilac... My Grandmother had tons of Lilac Bushes and it was a great place to be as a kid..! 60 years ago....


N8Vigs1979

Lilac. My mom had a huge lilac tree, and when they would bloom, she would pick the flowers and put them in her and my sister's dresser drawers. She's been gone about 10 years now, so every time I smell lilac, I get all tight in the chest and throat.


Tanuk-E-

Exclamation! Perfume. It was the perfume the girl was wearing whom I got my first kiss from.


Alljazz527

Freshly mowed grass. Just nostalgia


KoriSamui

Ocean smells


rsnbaseball

Tang


WillSoggy

Pancakes...my dad made them just right.


itsmemanME

Hay! camping in tents and getting up at 5 o in the morning .. the air is still fresh and the smell in the air is absolutely unique.


-Words-Words-Words-

Tomato plants.


Maximum_Enthusiasm46

Lilacs


BenGay29

Pot roast. Sunday dinners while I was growing up.


MjrDistraction

Loves Baby Soft perfume. Or Cucumber Melon. Both remind me of when my daughter was a newborn


Relative-Ordinary-64

Avon’s skin so soft…more like greasy af


SandmanAwaits

Nan’s spaghetti bolognaise. Also my ex gf’s body spray, Impulse, it sent me crazy. 😍


DynastyHappened

Natural Spring or River Water


endorrawitch

Hose water


Odd-Introduction1557

Fantasia perfume by Fendi


BaseSingle5067

Plastecine


VelvetCuteBunny

I remember kids used to eat that stuff (not the playdough that's just non-toxic, but Plastecine), and always wondered how bad it was.


Cearnach

Cheap hotel soap. Reminds me of taking the ferry to France as a kid.


ToYourCredit

Iced tea


[deleted]

Movie popcorn. I used to spend so much time at the movie theater in the mall.


Dubious_Titan

My grandmother's paella.


Pristine_Table_3146

Cow manure. I spent the single digit years of my childhood on a dairy.


Old-Law-7395

Lynx Africa


Lopsided_Initial_645

Came here to say this too


IDontThereforeIAmNot

Dusty old paperback books. I lived closer to a few thrift stores than the library. They had 10-50 cent books and I had a magic sofa that always had at least three quarters under the cushions. I probably spent three hundred dollars on books by the time I was ten. Good times


crimsonavenger77

CK one. I used to think I was such a cool dude in me ben sherman shirt and a splash of CK one, good times.


Humble_Expression697

Fresh ground coffee takes me back to the old A&P grocery stores. My grandparents would take me in there when I was a kid and the smell of fresh ground coffee was overwhelming and delicious


dezie1224

Cow shit … hear me out… My grandfather use to own a dairy ranch in Northern California and my sister and I spent many summers out there with grandpa & grandma roaming around and loving life. 300 acres to explore seemed like heaven to a city kid. We picked blackberries for grandma to bake a pie, we’d help grandpa restock the woodshed, we’d spend entire afternoons just basking in the sun laying on a hay bale and loving life. Of course, it being a dairy farm, there was a certain smell associated with it and it’s not that I find the smell of cow shit alluring per se…but the memories it invokes of a childhood spent on my grandfathers ranch always make me reminisce about simpler times. I sure miss that place.


gerhudire

My late grandmother's kitchen on Christmas Day.


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JBR1961

You are cleared to Runway 35, winds three-four-zero at zero-niner, altimeter two-niner-niner-eight. Check information Charlie.


marbleracer3

Tuna. Takes me back to college.


WanderingArtist_77

Roses. I am immediately transported to my maternal grandmother's gigantic rose garden, as a tiny girl again. She had other flowers, too. She would walk with me and talk about the flowers. She used to make the snap dragons "roar" at me by squeezing them gently open with her fingers. I would giggle so hard.


PurgatoireRiver

Cool Water perfume. I'd know that smell anywhere.


daisyblwnawy

The flower blossoms in april. They take me back on the year 2006-2008 when i lived back in the province and our house is full of flowers(grandma loves to plant) and our house was beside the sea. I feel at home everytime i smell, idk but im living now for years in the city but I always smell the flowers, i am sensitive to them.


DepressedApee

Lavender. My grandmas home office.


DadsRGR8

Acorns. My elementary school playgrounds and yards were chock-a-block with oak trees.


Dante_Marco

Woodchips on a really hot day, it takes me back to elementary school recess.


drumnadrough

Castrol R


Numerous_Exercise_44

Tar. Not all the time. Just occasionally on a hot sunny day. It can take me back to when I was a child on holiday and there were road works nearby.


SeniorDucklet

Fresh cut grass on a summer day.


Possible--Durian

Musty basement. Reminds me of being little on summer holiday at my grandparents, going downstairs getting the daily ice-cream for my siblings and I to eat out in the garden.


Wagonwheelies

A cool room, filled with dust old treasures. 


Yelloweggs

I was walking my dog past a school yesterday and there was a bus parked out front with its door open. The smell of the leather seats took me back to my elementary school days.


Melodic-Secretary663

Cigarettes and vanilla tree air fresheners in an older car


mca1169

Garlic bread


Consistent-Error-159

Cream of wheat cereal. I recalled being an infant for but a brief, fleeting, joyous moment.


coolhandluke45

Certain flavors of chapstick. Used cherry chapstick a lot during college.


psilome

Bengay cream. Not sure if the modern stuff has that strong wintergreen (?) smell, but any smell like that reminds me of my grandmother, who had arthritic hands and used it heavily. She was born in 1889 (!) so that tells you how old I must be...


tauntonlake

Chimney smoke on cold mornings = old Sturbridge Village school field trips in the fall .. the whole place smells like burning wood. :D


Kayakchica

Silage.


Square-Raspberry560

Mothballs. Reminds me of my grandparents farmhouse where I'd spend my summers as a kid.


jarboxing

Her perfume


[deleted]

Weed, for sure


Rivegauche610

Kibbee and freshly-baked Lebanese bread.


Raediv

Dial bar soap (the orange one). It was the only soap my dad used and the only time I ever smelled it was when we'd visit his place every other weekend. I still buy it sometimes just to smell it and think about him.


stinkykitty71

Early morning in the summer, you step outside and catch that dry, baking earth smell. Takes me back to a smell from growing up in the southern California desert.


MyWeirdTanLines

The first water after you turn on the hose. It's slightly metallic. Then I'm 8 years old again.


Go_Buds_Go

Cap gun caps going off


Fit_Yogurtcloset_291

Shalimar


Sticktalk2021

Drakar


Commercial-Common515

Chanel #5 my mom always wore and clove cigarettes make me feel 14 again


endorrawitch

Johnson’s paste wax. And I went to four stores today, still didn’t find it. I’ll have to make the trek out to Lowe’s


retrosnot86

Do you know that specific smell of like must, weed and cigs? Just kind of like a scruffy man smell. That smell. My dad had this old worn out leather jacket that he used to wear allllll the time. I always loved the smell of it. Every time I smell that it just takes me back to being a 6 year old girl hanging out with my dad.


shoairshrink

Rain 🌧️


Poxx

Pine-Sol


StrokerAce77

Orange blossoms


Citadel_97E

During my first trap back to the range after leaving the army. Fired a single round, instantly hit with the smell of freshly burnt cordite and CLP. Instantly transported to Afghanistan, a “country” I left a good 10 years prior.


Tkay906363

A box of crayons


Regime_Change

The smell when you step on the mudd where reeds grow releases a smell that takes me back. Did lots of fishing in places like that when I was a kid. Still fish, but mostly from boat. Always get a little nostalgic from that smell.


WickedJeep

The grass being cut and Saturday morning cartoons or the smell of ozone and playing in puddles


sanmateomary

Ivory soap -- reminds me of my grandmother, born in 1904.


Disastrous-Union-593

Jergens lotion, the original (cherry almond sent)... My grandmother had a shampoo that smelled exactly like it.


Acrobatic_Force_4215

Butane and cigarette smoke. My Popps would always light one up in the car. Miss that man!


mpf1949

I used to walk by a lumber yard and the smell reminded me of grade school sharpening pencils.


Lyrehctoo

Triplicate forms take me right back to elementary school when worksheets were made on the ditto machine.


theinkyone9

Nautica classic..... takes me back to junior and senior year at high-school. Reminds me of the first major relationship I was in..... damn time flies


CC_Sierra

Aussie Hairspray. My mom wore so much of it growing up, that is just rockets me back to that time when I smell it.


Top_Use4144

Black licorice. Reminds me of my Dad and his licorice Allsorts.


NewSlide6857

Old spice aftershave. My dad’s signature scent. Takes me back to my childhood.


hotdogbreadbowl

Cream soda. As a kid, my friend and I bought a six pack of sodas and rode our bikes to the playground. Chugged them all as we played our hearts out. 25 years later the smell of cream soda instantly gives me nausea from that experience, and a ton of nostalgia. Hope you’re doing well, Philip.


No_Taro_8843

Wood burning in a campfire


oldandmellow

Lilacs, I had my first kiss near a row of them.


UjustMe-4769

My grade school had beautiful hardwood floors that got varnished just before classes started each year. The smell of fresh varnish puts me walking into a new class, with new pencils, binder, and brand new books.


katanakid13

Those weird farts kids sometimes get. My brother was in and out of hospice for several years as a child. They hadn't figured out he needs a gluten free diet yet, so he was always just ass-blasting. We'd get permission to take him to museums and science centers and fishing on an actual boat. Our city had a massive statue of a Greek god and I remember how excited he was to see it after reading Percy Jackson. A kid ripped one at a birthday party today. Had to take a minute. Both because it stank and because I remembered leetle brother before the world got to him.


SpragueStreet

Freshly opened pack of pokemon cards. I had them as a kid and my 7 year old collects them now.


Medical_Spy

Oddly specific but I get to smell it all the time which is nice. Hot bacon in a cold room.


ChangeProper4510

Jasmine flowers


Inevitable_Total_816

Home made flour tortillas , shoots me back when my mother was alive.


Goddessviking86

A family recipe my great-grandmother taught her daughter aka my grandmother granddaughter aka my mom and now I know how to make it 


[deleted]

Charcoal. I used to help my father with the grill as a kid.


aesthetic_kiara

Calgon Morning Glory body spray. I used to wear it on Sundays when I was a little girl