My Memory Lane

What smells bring back good memories to you?

Some smells just have good memories attached to them. I love the smell of the ocean, I love the smell of thanksgiving being prepared, what are some of your favorite smells with memories attached to them.

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1. cooch
2. This sounds a little strange, but the chlorine smell from swimming pools always brings back happy memories.
3. shit is always nice tyry that DEEP INHALATION
4. Toffee Apples...
5. pipe tobbaco
6. That earthy smell that you get when you walk in the woods of Southern Illinois after it's rained. Nothing like it.
7. Sun tan lotion
8. collard greens cooking. reminds me of my grandma and how we used to have collard greens and corn bread every sunday.
9. anything that reminds me of the past good things
10. Fresh Green Grass
11. the smell of wood burning for me lol because i have been at alot of bonfires
12. weed
13. don't laugh. the smell of gear lube and racing fuel. i grew up around race cars.
14. Honeysuckle Flower Magnolia Flower Sea Air Biscuits
15. The plastic wrap on toys-just because it reminds me when I was little and I was opening those Christmas toys:) Oh those wonderful times:)
16. the sweet aroma of honeysuckles always bring me back to my childhood. they were outside my bedroom window.
17. Autumn leaves, I guess :\
18. Avon Cotillion cologne. It's discontinued but they bring it back every few years. My grandmother wore it when I was a child. I hadn't thought about it for years but a few years ago was on a city bus near someone wearing it and memories of my grandmother came flooding back.
19. burning leaves, gasoline ha ha, and wet dog. all just from when i was a kid, going swimming with my dog, and the huge bonfires my parents would have. good times.
20. Freshly baked bread. This one carries so many memories I can't distinguish or count them all. Maybe even stuff from infancy is in there -- or who knows -- conception itself! We had a bakery a block or so behind our house when I was a child, too. Whatever the connection, it is a smell that always feels comforting to me, and judging from Pillsbury Grands commercials on TV, I'm not alone in feeling that way. Second one: I must thank the answerer above me. Rare to smell burning leaves in Miami where I am living now. But especially in Portland, OR where I spent my teenage years, this one (of course accompanied by rare winter days when it wasn't raining there) meant crisp fall weather, football games, the cosiness of home nearby, the coming holidays and so on.
21. fresh cut grass, burning leaves, remind me of my childhood.
22. Cinnamon- reminds me of my grandma's kitchen when she made cinnamon bread or sweet rice Moth balls- reminds me of her big old steamer trunk where she stored all of her old hats, gloves, purses that she let me play dress up with Rain- right before a sudden summer thunderstorm - reminds me of sitting on the front porch with Grandpa, watching the rain roll in and saying prayers of thanks for the rain (he was a farmer) Baby powder - reminds me of when my babies were, well, babies! (They are all in their teens and 20s now.) That really stinky puppy breath smell-- reminds me of the joy of getting a new puppy Paint, oil, gas- my dad used to work in an auto repair shop and we sometimes got to visit him at work. I love the smells of his shop along with the brrrrrt, brrrrt sounds of the power wrench. Gosh, thanks for the walk down memory lane!
23. Baked goods like cookies and fresh baked bread its like a warm cozy smell and reminds me of when I was little and mom would make cookies and stuff and give them to us warm with some hot chocolate.
24. licorice
25. Roasted arepas>Colombian maize patties>mmm..the aroma transports me back into my grandmas hugging arms and her rustic kitchen in Itaguii, Colombia..I felt warm and comforted and secure ...ahh, even the memory of the aroma is soothing:)