Certain Smells

[brannon86]

Do certain smells take you back in time, to a certain place in your life that you remember at an instant when you smell whatever it is you are smelling, Ha

[monkey tennis]

The smell of new carpets always seems quite comforting, my Dad used to work in a carpet store and used to take me to work with him when I was about 3 years old, and I would fall asleep on top of a mountain of carpets. Also the smell of that plastic type chewing gum that used to shatter and splinter that came with old trading cards, that always takes me back on a nostalgia trip.

[Captain]

I have been buying the reissued Marx Johnny West gear sets from the "Friends of Johnny" group. Unlike the Marx re-issues of a few years ago, or the stuff put out by Toy Trackerz, these kits have that incredible plastic smell unique to the original old Johnny West vinyl accessories. Every time I get a whiff of that heavenly scent it takes me back to Christmas ' long ago, when a Johnny West toy under the tree was an absolute certainty.

[theantiquetiger]

play-do
freshly printed test printed on those machines before the modern day copy machine

[Mikey]

A couple of years ago I was visiting Woods Hole up in Cape Cod.
The tour bus was clearly an old converted school bus.
When I got on and the driver pulled out......
The smell of that diesel bus engine really took me back.
Aint no smell like a school bus engine

[Bizarro Amy]

freshly printed test printed on those machines before the modern day copy machine

Do you mean the ones with the purple ink? Ditto masters! I liked that smell too. There was a movie, I don't remember the title, but there were a bunch of schoolchildren, and the teacher passed out those sheets for a test. All the kids bent down at the same time, took a whif, and smiled when they sat up.

[spaceace35]

warm apple pie and vanilla

my favorites

[Goblin19]

Sometimes, there's a certain smell in a store that reminds me of Children's Palace, my childhood toy store. I smelled the smell when I was with my brother once and before I could ask him what that smelled like he turned and said "This smells like Children's Palace".

[toys2cool]

the shoe smell from the payless stores always takes me back to the 80's when my mom would spend hours at shoe stores in the mall and we would be buying toys at the KB next door

[grayhank]

A brand new box of Crayola Crayons works for me! Mmmmmm

[wayne foundation 07]

The smell of Bazzooka Joe bubble gum!!!It was just the best as a kid,that little bit of sugar you could see on the outside.3 or 4 pcs and you would get an awesome bubble.Sweet smelling tasted great and you got a cartoon to read too.That what being a kid was about,fun for only 1 cent.

[theantiquetiger]

Do you mean the ones with the purple ink? Ditto masters! I liked that smell too. There was a movie, I don't remember the title, but there were a bunch of schoolchildren, and the teacher passed out those sheets for a test. All the kids bent down at the same time, took a whif, and smiled when they sat up.

Ditto machines, its it. The smell of the ink.

Crayons also trigger a certain memory.

[Bo8a_Fett]

Those scented erasers bring back memories of school as it was quite a craze for girls back then...and rusks I never forgot the smell of rusks.

[Mikey]

What's a rusk ?

[HardyGirl]

Vinyl playsets, (like my Barbie Country Camper)
Crayola Crayons
school paste
Mimeograph copies (w/ the purple ink!)
Chlorine pool water in the air on a hot day
amonia
the way your hair smells on a warm windy day
certain foods my mom would cook
Christmas trees
playdoh
the smell of the woods
a new doll