Smells that take you back to a place

fakearms123 · 29-08-2008 05:05PM #1

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 · 29-08-2008 05:06PM

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

TPD · 29-08-2008 05:07PM

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

Handsome Bob · 29-08-2008 05:08PM

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 · 29-08-2008 05:09PM

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 · 29-08-2008 05:19PM

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

RoosterIllusion · 29-08-2008 05:27PM

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 · 29-08-2008 05:29PM

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

RoosterIllusion · 29-08-2008 05:33PM

Agamemnon wrote: »

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

Yore Ma.

shenanigans1982 · 29-08-2008 05:39PM

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 · 29-08-2008 05:40PM

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

RoosterIllusion · 29-08-2008 05:46PM

Yore Ma.

MooseJam · 29-08-2008 06:07PM

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

entropi · 29-08-2008 06:16PM

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 · 29-08-2008 06:44PM

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

29-08-2008 06:52PM

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 · 29-08-2008 06:55PM

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 · 29-08-2008 06:58PM

marcsignal wrote: »

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

What's that all about!?

FlutterinBantam · 29-08-2008 08:39PM

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 · 29-08-2008 08:58PM

Sherifu wrote: »

What's that all about!?

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

Toto Wolfcastle · 29-08-2008 10:29PM

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 · 29-08-2008 10:34PM

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 · 29-08-2008 10:57PM

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 · 29-08-2008 11:05PM

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

Silenceisbliss · 29-08-2008 11:09PM

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 · 29-08-2008 11:14PM

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 · 29-08-2008 11:15PM

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 · 29-08-2008 11:19PM

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 · 29-08-2008 11:27PM

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 · 29-08-2008 11:28PM

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 · 29-08-2008 11:34PM

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.

Smells that take you back to a place

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