I used to love the smell of my Gran's tomato soup when I visited her on a Sunday.
2006-09-19 12:44:54 · 33 answers · asked by jules h 1 in Family & Relationships ➔ Family
my mother....a very unique smell.
2006-09-19 12:46:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
What a great question! My favorite smell would have to be the smell of my mom's chocolate chip cookies when we would walk through the gate after school. We were very fortunate that our Mom was able to stay home & we have those memories of the smells of our childhood. I much older now & my mom has since passed away. Last year our childhood home burned down & that broke my heart, but the memories of all the different smells coming from the kitchen is priceless. Even today when I bake those same cookies I think of my Mom.!
2006-09-19 20:27:33 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Stew n dumplings.
Sunday lunch ..BIG Yorkshire puddings and mashed potatoes
Bacon n eggs + fried bread
Fresh bread
Lino (a floor covering, for those too young to know)
Leather (granddad worked with horse harness's)
Fresh Veg (though didn't like most of them)
Fresh sawn timber
Turpentine
Soil, a sweet dampness after it had rained
Bran, food for chickens - warm throaty smell
Barn (Farm) smells (mum's cousins farm)....
.........Sisal
.........Sacking
.........Hay
.........Linseed oil
.........Warm dust as it floated in the air
.........Timber being planned
.........Horses, warm smell of
.........Kitchen smells, a whole spectrum of them - inc...
.........Fresh pastry cooling at an open window
Sometimes, a 'smell' was a combination of a number of them. Calling it just 'hay' is a misnomer as it was a combination of so many smells, of grasses, wheat, oats, barley and more - combined with the smells from sacks of apples, onions and wealth of smells, scents and aromas.
Until ten years back, I cycled to work and home for the best part of 24 years. Every morning I passed by two bakeries. There was the same smell every morning and every night, and every time, it sparked my mouth into watering and generated images.
In the summer, that same smell had a warm summery-ness about it, eating warm bread laced with ‘Butter,’ and tomatoes and cheese. And that SAME smell in the winter provoked other - eating 'warm' bread with 'butter' in front of an 'Open Fire' and with one of those cups of tea that ‘hits the spot.’
Oh, one other smell I miss, 'Lifebuoy toilet Soap.' It was also a little nauseous making as smells go, but I can smell it now, and miss it.
PS: Good question.
Thanks
Sash.
2006-09-23 11:11:07 · answer #3 · answered by sashtou 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The smells of the beach. Salty air, suntan lotions, warm air mixing with cool breeze.
Magnolia flower....smelling one puts me right back into my favorite tree to sit in as a child.
Feeling the wind gently rock the branches and feeling like a bird watching life from above.
2006-09-19 12:53:42 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The smell of summer rain, and steam from the old trains that rumbled along at the bottem of our garden.
And Johnsons Baby talc when my baby brother arrived!
2006-09-22 12:31:46 · answer #5 · answered by SUPER-GLITCH 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the smell of the farm i lived on...i havent been there since i was 2 years old...and im now 28 but i still remember how it smelled, how it looked and how i felt when i was there.
2006-09-19 12:48:01 · answer #6 · answered by yep ive left 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Funnily enough i absolutley loved the smell of exhaust fumes from cars, petrol used to make me feel extatic almost sexual.
Im now a budding environmentalist, but petrol did it for me when i was a kid *:)
2006-09-19 13:05:57 · answer #7 · answered by Jabba_da_hut_07 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My whole family has stopped smoking and I never started. But when I smell the brand Mom used to smoke, it doesn't smell nasty like regular cigarette smoke. It always makes me think of her.
2006-09-19 12:48:22 · answer #8 · answered by Sara 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Carbolic soap,petrol fumes,the smell of fresh cut grass in summer,and when i go shopping,i ALWAYS stand in the veg aisle for a while,with a bunch of spring onions up me hooter,it reminds me of the shed in the veg plot my grandad used to have at back of his house,it stank of spring onions-heavenly!!The smell of engines my dad used to work on,the polo mints mum used to eat by the box,shoe shop smell,nans gravy,the old wooden school desks.....aahhh,its all coming back to me-why do we have to grow up!!!
2006-09-19 21:39:15 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hot tarmac, and the smell of new tyres in a tyre shop. Weird huh
2006-09-19 13:51:49 · answer #10 · answered by Snowth 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The smell of fresh vegetables out of my parents' garden. You can't beat the smell of fresh ripe tomatoes, or fresh-from-the-field peas...heavenly!
2006-09-19 12:51:21 · answer #11 · answered by deonne r 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋