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Mine has to be tarmac. My gran lived close to the docks in Liverpool , you could always smell the stuff wafting around the streets. Another smell is hot donuts reminds me as a kid hanging around the pier head or landing stage as the older people would call it. My grandad worked on the royal Iris ( a mersey ferry cruiser ) every saturday we would meet him when he finished work. We would go the the donut stall for a bag of donuts to take home needless to say they never made it! we ate them on the way.
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Lol. Your reminders Sophia.
Loved horses..wanted to learn to ride. Hated smell in stalls. Never learned till an older adult. Heeeeee..
Love smells at fresh bakery shops. Early early mornings. Want it all..
Hot pretzels and roasted chestnuts.
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That’s a nice post, Sophia, and a good thread.
Smells are very important to all of us as children.
I cna’t think of anything as good as the smells of your childhood, but I loved the smell of candy floss at the fair.
The sounds and laughter of the fairground were magic to me when i was a kid. There always seemed to be the promise of something wonderful about to happen, though usually all that did happen was being sick after eating the candy floss and whirling around on the wurlitzer.
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That’s a nice post, Sophia, and a good thread.
Smells are very important to all of us as children.
I cna’t think of anything as good as the smells of your childhood, but I loved the smell of candy floss at the fair.
The sounds and laughter of the fairground were magic to me when i was a kid. There always seemed to be the promise of something wonderful about to happen, though usually all that did happen was being sick after eating the candy floss and whirling around on the wurlitzer.
Scep I’ll never forget the smell of hot dogs when the fair came to town. I knew they were wrong I knew they were dirty but god how I wanted one ! Those greasy onions made it!
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Now that smell always put me off, Rose.
But I think that for kids of the past 40 years, it’s been the colours and smell of a Macdonald’s fast-food shithouse which has been the main trap. They really do get very excited over going to Ronnald’s Place.
Deep Heat.We were due to play footie on a cold sunday morning when i was about 21 playing for a pub team.One of our players used Deep Heat cream on his legs to keep them warm finished rubbing it in and went for a pee before he had washed his hands.He didnt make the game but the smell still makes me smile 😈
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I’ve been thinking about this thread, and I suddenly realise that I have a problem.
I’ve forgotten the smell of Christmas.
Maybe Christmas doesn’t have a smell?
I do remember as a kid the incredible excitement as Christmas approached, the feel that there was something different with a lot more people smiling (in my day, in the early medieval period, when the main smell was horse crap on the roads caused by the transport of that day), and for kids that often comes across as a smell.
But does Christmas have a smell??
duh.
What a decent question.
For me – its the smell of alcohol or cigs. Or minge?
Obviously fresh cut grass, cakes, coffee etc factored but hey the 1st smell of “a PUB” b4 smoking ban etc
oh and minge – thats a smell u cant mistake for a bad day on whitley bay
oh and SPICY FOOD !
BTW HAPPY CHRISTMAS!
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Christmas..is a great smell not only in the air if going to snow..but agree the festivities..excitment..entertaining..baking. yep so Christmas suppose ahh..yep great smell. I spend days baking cookies for others..pies..swapping of recipes. I have pine cone trees..I save pine cones as fall down in Sept. Dry them and make wreaths for gifts. Pine smell nice around house..so much food around..so yep. Smells nice..fun..and fattening. Lol…..
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linda, Christmas has a nice feel to it, but I was wondering about the smell.
Sweet mince pies are very characteristic of a British Christmas, but do they have a smell?
Pine would be a nice smell, but that must be an American Christmas, I don’t think it’s a Brit Christmas *waits to be corrected, it was never part of my Christmas, anyway.
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