Smells that take you back to a place

fakearms123

Has your nose ever detected a smell that brought you back to a particular place?
I remember I was working in a Spanish tapas bar and the smell of their meatballs always reminded me of my girlfriends vagina.... maybe it was the other way around, maybe all these years my girlfriends vagina actually reminded me of Spanish meat.
Or when I used to use Lynx Africa when I was playing basketball at a summer camp in America, I remember spraying in on myself recently and it brought me back to America in a flash.
Have you ever experienced a smell that brought you back in time or just reminded you of something, maybe genitalia?

whiskeyman

Walking past the fish markets in Howth reminded me of.... YORE MA!

TPD

The smell of chloroform takes you back to Snyper's place.

Handsome Bob

The smell of horse manure reminds me of fond summers on the streets of Killarney (coincidently because horse manure was always on the streets:pac:).

shenanigans1982

Smoked food always reminds me of International Drive in Orlando. Every second building on it is a restaurant and the whole street just smells of it.

Turd Ferguson

Any time I smell steak being cooked it always reminds of the last time I ate steak...

RoosterIllusion

The smell of fresh bread brings me back to Bridge Street in Cork in 1990 on my first day of school. Bridge news used to bake baguettes every morning and I remember passing every day on my way to school and smelling the fresh bread. Particularly so on the cold mornings. A very powerful memory now that I think about it.

Agamemnon

The smell of napalm in the morning always brings me back to the Mekong Delta in '69. Good times

RoosterIllusion

Agamemnon wrote: »

The smell of napalm in the morning always brings me back to the Mekong Delta in '69. Good times

Yore Ma.

shenanigans1982

RoosterIllusion wrote: »

Yore Ma.

Someone will correct me but as far as I know the rules only allow one "Yore Ma" post per thread...they also allow for one........ FAIL!

shoelaceface

yeah.... i know yeah..... yeah? oh yeah!

RoosterIllusion

Yore Ma.

MooseJam

the smell of sh1t takes me back to the hour I spent in the bog this morning

entropi

The smell of hops being brewed from guinness lets me know i'm home from a holiday since i can smell it from where i live:) oh the smell of the liffey to remind me of the horrible things that are still here

marcsignal

the smell of Bullshit always reminds me of Xpose on TV3.

Sometimes new books have this smell that reminds me of getting really excited on christmas morning.
I think it is because they remind me of the smell of those giant lucky bag socks.

DenMan

The smell of the sweat and the beer reminds me of Academy 3 in Manchester (very small venue). Oh how I miss that place, need to get back.

Sherifu

marcsignal wrote: »

the smell of Bullshit always reminds me of Xpose on TV3.

What's that all about!?

FlutterinBantam

The smell of a sour malevolent curry shíte reminds me of my last visit to Mumbai and the fent in the hotel the morning I left:cool:

marcsignal

Sherifu wrote: »

What's that all about!?

http://www.tv3.ie/programmes.php?action=view&id=266

Toto Wolfcastle

The smell of urine covered with bleach reminds me of my favourite pub.

On a nicer note, the smell of my pillow reminded me of someone the other day even though that person has never been near that pillow! It was weird. Nice weird.

jackbutler

Sorry, i'm only 15, and yet i haven't heard of vagina's that smell like meatballs.

Maybe i'll stick away from the ladies, or maybe just yours ;]

anyway.
Bout a year ago i was on a flight to america. It was a long 'un obviously so we got a meal. The meal wasn't horrible, but the smell was the strangest i've ever smelt. Almost every day i smell that smell, i'm surprised i didn't notice it before.

Oh and when i was 7 i had appendicitis and i remember the smell of the bandages that went around my hand where the central line was.
Yummy

mumhaabu

LZ5by5 wrote: »

The smell of horse manure reminds me of fond summers on the streets of Killarney (coincidently because horse manure was always on the streets:pac:).

It still is and is unsightly drove there recently and the place was littered. The town council came up with suggestions for a horse diaper and you can imagine the hilarity that ensued.

The smell of cut grass always reminds of me summers when it used to rain, also the smell of a summer barbecue wafting in from the neighbours was good. There was times when the sun used to shine in Ireland IIRC.

Rowley Birkin QC

The smell of 8 mens farts, 3 day socks, white widow and stale Amstel reminds me of Amsterdam.

Silenceisbliss

I like the way purple smells

It reminds me of how blue and red smell after they get it OOOON.

happy memories...:)

(Blue being me.....Red being YORE MA....so basically....i like the way you smell :cool:)

DenMan

bigkev49 wrote: »

The smell of 8 mens farts, 3 day socks, white widow and stale Amstel reminds me of Amsterdam.

Dorm room I take it (or camp site?)

The Bollox

the smell of Lynx Africa always takes me back to the dorm room in Larch Hill when I was there with the scouts

Rowley Birkin QC

DenMan wrote: »

Dorm room I take it (or camp site?)

Hostel dorm, great week. 40 of us on a trip to examine the Planning System in Holland.

The best part was that some of the lads actually got grants to go, brilliant!!

Trinity

The smell of hospital toilets bring back terrible memories of my c section.

Only time i got scared on my second pregnancy was if i had to use the toilet while in the rotunda hospital on visits or whatever i would just get this horrible rush all over my body as i was reminded of what to expect this time around.

mumhaabu

bigkev49 wrote: »

Hostel dorm, great week. 40 of us on a trip to examine the Planning System in Holland.

The best part was that some of the lads actually got grants to go, brilliant!!

Grants to go to Amsterdam? I wonder what ye spent it on! *cough* On the flip side what is the country coming to doling out grants to send students abroad? Excessive spending like this will break the country.

Catari Jaguar

The smell of Booterstown station reminds me of last summer volunteering in the shanty town, Kibera. So does the weird bakery smell on Talbot street in the mornings. Churns my stomach. I used to like the smell of seaweed and bakery.. It's ruined for me, just reeks of sewerage now.

Itsdacraic

janeybabe wrote: »

The smell of urine covered with bleach reminds me of my favourite pub.

On a nicer note, the smell of my pillow reminded me of someone the other day even though that person has never been near that pillow!

That you know of................

Shacklebolt

The smell of BBQ always reminds me of Spain-and the smell of Lynx Africa of DCU

Toto Wolfcastle

Itsdacraic wrote: »

That you know of................

LOL well I do have a stalker!

Degsy

The smell of woodsmoke in the summer reminds me of my granny's back garden.

luckat

Th'oul turf fire. Woodbines (the cigarettes). Woodbines (the plant). Warm soda-bread. Hens. Old Spice and sweaty youth.

tallus

The smell of Matches/sulphur reminds me of my grannies years back when I was visiting and she lit the fire.

ewj1978

vodka...reminds me of the time i had to have my stomach pumped from drinking too much vodka... Haven't touched the stuff since....:(

Pompey Magnus

Walking up the stairs in HMV a few year ago I passed a bloke and he must have used the same aftershave as my headmaster in primary school. It stopped me dead in my tracks because I immediately associated the smell with my headmaster who I hadn't seen in about 10 years. I had to turn around to check to see if it was him (it wasn't).

I was amazed at how I still recognized the smell after all those years, if I was asked to describe it I wouldn't know where to start but just a quick sniff and my brain linked the two straight away.

Hauk

I was on the train home the other day and with all rush hour commuter trains, the smells are different. Suddenly this smell hit me and it reminded me of a house I stayed in in Mayo. I'm convinced that house is haunted...

Hauk

FlutterinBantam

Maybe you forgot to take one of your used jocks from behind the rad???

rogue-entity

marcsignal wrote: »

the smell of Bullshit always reminds me of Xpose on TV3.

Or Big Brother and the plethora of sh1te reality TV shows ¬_¬

mumhaabu wrote: »

Grants to go to Amsterdam? I wonder what ye spent it on! *cough* On the flip side what is the country coming to doling out grants to send students abroad? Excessive spending like this will break the country.

I think you'll find the system of voting for the same party your dad always voted for, has already broken this country. The excessive high, and ought-to-be-illegal taxes charged, are just the nails in the coffin.

For me, music is what takes me back more than smells. Every time I listen to Rendez-Vu I am instantly reminded of my trip to the states.