Certain Smells

[Marvelmania]

Trading/sports card gum. Man as soon as I smell it I have great memories! Mennon after shave. When I was a kid my dad wore this stuff all the time.

[RG]

I've pulled a few vintage Star Wars figures off the card and the smell takes be back to the 80's.

The smell of fresh cut wood reminds me of being a kid as my dad was building our house.

a nice summer rain fall and the earthy smell takes me back to being in Jr. high and hanging out with friends

the smell of some flowers takes me to when my brother was killed and our house was full of flowers that people had sent us (not a fun one, but a very powerful one)

[Evel KMego]

Gotta go with the smell of Play Doh. That is such a distinctive smell, it takes you back to your childhood. I believe they have a patent on the smell.

[toys2cool]

uhhh I forgot the smell of the 80's slime i dipped all my figures into that.I still have a couple that smell like it

[Bo8a_Fett]

Huge baby biscuit that can be given to them when they are teething or mashed up with baby milk as solid food...yum yum...great stuff. Studants used to have a huge following of rusk eating over here years ago.

[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

[Mikey]

What's a rusk ?

[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.

[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.

[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.

[grayhank]

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

[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

[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".

[spaceace35]

warm apple pie and vanilla

my favorites

[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.