What scents remind you of you're childhood & teenage years?

[snoopy]

Agree Shampoo
Lemon Up Shampoo
Beer on Tap Shampoo
Love's Baby Soft
Avon's Sweet Honesty

Lavendar reminds me of the Lavendar Little Kiddle I had. I was at a spa recently getting a facial and when she pulled out the lavendar aromotheraphy I got goosebumps - it brought me right back to my childhood.

 

[poochie]

The smell that brings me the most memories. That would be Peppermint Lifesavers. My mom always carried a couple of rolls in her purse- and on every car trip either to visit a relative, a trip to the store or a family vacation she would pass the roll around.

She is gone now, passed away about 12 yrs ago. Just to show you how much a scent can instill a memory. One of the department managers offered me a peppermint lifesaver and the tears started flowing once I got a whiff, totally unexpected. Very embrassing on both our parts. Never thought that would happen, and after so many years too.

 

[snoopy]

Awww, that is a really sweet memory though poochie. I can see why it would bring you to tears.

 

[jinxed]

OMG, I can't believe the memories that are brought back with the products you all mentioned.

The smell of a campfire brings me back to my girlscout days.
Also Oil of Olay reminds me of my mom.
Pine tree car air fresheners remind me of when I first started driving.

 

[Kitty 34]

Musk
old books
Coppertone
root beer
cocoa---mom made that the "old" way every AM!
Noxema
lemon drops

 

[cinmell]

Aqua Net Hairspray
Noxema
Gloria Vanderbilt Perfume

 

[HollyJoy]

Playdough made of salt ..lol

Luv's Baby Soft
A brand new barbie doll
Root Bear
Noxema

 

[Beth E. (NJ)]

Another blast from the past smell -- the smell of papers copied on the "mimiograph machine" in school.

 

[jinxed]

Beth, wow, how could I forget the smell of those copied papers in school. I was definately a paper sniffer.

 

[Catzeyes]

Love's lemon
Prell shampoo that came in the tube
The old Herbal Essence
Black Magic Markers
Patchulli Oil
The smell of the science lab while we were cutting up the frogs
Coppertone and Noxema
The little jars of lilly of the valley and lilac perfumes
Burnt marshmellows over a campfire
My mom's bread baking every sat morning

 

[Serena]

My Bonne bell lip gloss was Dr. Pepper. I wore it everywhere.

Let's see. Sea Breeze
lemon Pledge
straw
Love's Baby Soft too
Hawaiian Tropic
Prell shampoo


This was fun.

 

[pjlla]

High school smell.... Avon made a perfume called "Tasha" that I wore religiously in high school. My boyfriend at the time really liked it. They stopped making it in about 1985, but I still have an empty bottle and I can still smell it. It is like a mental time machine every time I smell it!!! I really like it still (maybe because it reminds me of good times).

College smell.... (other than that stale "day-after-party beer-in-the-carpet" smell) Wheat Germ Oil and Honey Shampoo (remember "I told two friends and they told two friends and so on and so on). .............................P

 

[DISshopkeeper]

The smell of the incense they use in Catholic churches makes me feel like a kid again with the first whiff.

 

[DCLuvinit]

Fresh cut grass...reminds me of childhood summertime
Perlier honey bubble bath....taking baths in my mom's tub when I was younger
Boucheron perfume...I wore it to one of my first cotillions
Pantene...high school

And I can still vividly remember the smell of the wood-frame bedroom window at my grandparent's house, when I would sit there looking outside.