Smells That Take You Back To Your Childhood

[riverroyal]

Resin. I spent most of my time in surfshops
Also shitty weed, and a hint of fish. That was high school, I had low class friends

 

[Captain Dan]

Resin. I spent most of my time in surfsh
Also shitty weed, and a hint of fish. That was high school, I had low class friends

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[rmarion]

2 stroke oil.

Bean Oil...

I ran Bel Ray... no distinct smell...

 

[mbrown2]

Blenzall in two strokes.... vintage hawaiian tropic oil the girls use to wear, and old 80's perfumes bring me back girls in highschool....Girorgio, Obsession, ect...

It's crazy how a girl can pass with a certain scent and bring you back a specific place 30-40 yrs ago like it was yesterday..

 

[rmarion]

Hot Asphalt.. SMELLS LIKE $$$$

 

[riverroyal]

Bean Oil...

I ran Bel Ray... no distinct smell...

Maxima 927 smells great

 

[mjc]

Burning rubber and race fuel.

 

[Rennsport]

The blue (non toxic) kind sucked ass and it would barely hold your parts together and it stained them. It smelled like oranges though. Give me the orange tube chemical smell all day!

It was lemon scented testers glue for me when building models. Brings me back to those times.

 

[mash on it]

Pops had a yard in Santa Fe Springs, in middle of the oil fields.
That smell. Just north of Bakersfield had the same smell.
Combined with a 262 Cummins cold start on a chilly morning.
Rumph, rumph, rumph...

Dan'l

 

[NicPaus]

Machine shed. Growing up we spent summers in Iowa helping the Grandparents work on the farm. The Machine shed housed all types of tractors, mowers, chain Saws and the like. I have 1 shed that has all my gas powered tools in it and every time I walk in I have flashbacks. No hog shit smell or smell of the inside of the corn silos we had to shovel out once they got past a certain point.

 

[spectras only]

Smell of Connolly leather in british cars.
Smell of Naugahyde in the brand new 72 Challenger always stayed with me.

 

[Willie B]

… One word…nitromethane… when you’re sitting in the cockpit of a Fueler…and the 22 inch long Zoomies are almost pointed at your face… And the breathing apparatus on your asbestos face mask really doesn’t filter shit…you gonna be waking up in the middle of the night for decades… because you actually dreamt the smell of nitromethane… Nothing better…

 

[HTTP404]

That Hawaiian Tropic coconut smelling suntan oil all the girls used when I was in Jr High.

 

[GRADS]

Baby oil and chlorine. No wonder I had skin cancer. Also Sun-In to bleach the hair.

 

[TPC]

The carb cleaner that’s outlawed now, and fresh cut watermelon

Carbon techno chloride?

New motorcycle smell walking into a dealership.
The creosote soaked timbers in the tunnels along the Disneyland Rail Road.

 

[TPC]

I remember when McDonald’s didn’t have inside dining, they had those solid surface benches made of quartz and white concrete. I remember the days of getting a cheeseburger, small fries, and a root beer and getting change back from your buck. The fries were awesome because they still used animal fat to fry them in. The soda dispensers used to be attached to a barrel. No frills burgers at a no frills price.

,,, and they didn’t hire girls.

 

[endobear]

Stripper smell.
There was a distinct perfume or body spray they all used in the 90s.
I spent alot of time doing research.
I believe it was a Victoria Secrets body spray. Don't remember the name of it.

 

[lakemadness]

The BMWs from the '90s to the early 2000s all had a leather smell that I always found unique. I've had two BMWs ('86 & an '03) in the past few years. Every time I'd get in for a drive, that smell took me back to being a kid in the early '90s.