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 to 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…Nitromethene… 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 Nitromethene… 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.

 

[ltbaney1]

Nitro for rc cars. Sorex for tire compound that I used at SoCal speedway in HB.

Good ole days

i can remember going through a bottle of buggy grip on my tires on a friday night at SoCal. and being pissed it didnt make me drive like Kinwald.

 

[ChrisV]

i can remember going through a bottle of buggy grip on my tires on a friday night at SoCal. and being pissed it didnt make me drive like Kinwald.

Dude still race…

 

[attitude]

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.

I had an 04 GTO my senior year of high school, made lots of great memories in that car. Years later I sat in a F430, same exact leather smell. Obviously the Ferrari used a higher quality leather but for whatever reason they share the exact same smell.

Makes me want a gated F430 even more.

 

[Rennsport]

Anyone remember Golden Spectrol for two stroke oil?

 

[Dan Lorenze]

Hawaiin Tropic Coconut Oil

Me too, my grandfather would put on Hawaiian Tropic lotion on everyday, he literally smelled like Hawaii. lol..

 

[The Capt]

I bought a new Yamaha Rd 400 in high school. Chambers, handle bars, set backs pegs. Love the smell of the 2 stroke. About 5 years ago I was at the gas station with the wife and I heard one start up. She asked what was wrong? Can’t you hear that I said. I got out and talked to the guys. 2 of them cruising around.

 

[coolchange]

I was at universal amphitheater and got this sudden hit of Hawaiian tropic and Cinnabon. I swung around so fast I almost spanked her with my boner.

 

[HTMike]

Working in a warehouse and riding a forklift, once in a great while I push a 40x48 pine wood pallet with about 2k lbs on it across the concrete floor and it smells like my Grandma's lake house I spent my childhood summers at. I stop what I am doing for about 90 seconds and enjoy the moment.

 

[Heylam]

The smell on your finger when you got to third base for the first time in your life

 

[ltbaney1]

Anyone remember Golden Spectrol for two stroke oil?

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the only thing better is 927 mixed with C12

 

[SLT Kota]

2 stroke exhaust and wood burning stoves. Brings me right back to spending the summer in the lake cabin as a kid. We still have the cabin but it is heated with gas, I miss the woodburning stove smell.

 

[rush1]

New tires , when I was a teenager I worked at Montgomery Wards auto center in Topanga Plaza , started as a tire buster then I worked in the basement of the auto center as a tire adjuster and left as an installer . as an installer I installed batteries, oil changes , all the after market kits such as variable speed wind shield wiper controllers , cruise controls and even sun roofs . But nothing reminds more of that time than the concentrated smell of new tires . Good times

 

[Orange Juice]

JP-5.

 

[JUSTWANNARACE]

Anyone remember Golden Spectrol for two stroke oil?

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Worst pre-mix ever

 

[HST4ME]

The cedar and pine trees and fresh air on the river I grew up on. Of course the smell of two stroke in the morning

 

[oldboatsrule]

Methanol and burning rubber. Takes me back to being 18 years old running sprints at Ascot. Great times !

 

[Aces & Eights]

Burning fuel in a Cox model airplane engine. .049

Oh yeah, I definitely remember the burning fuel from Cox. I got the rc Adam 12 Police Car, I loved that thing.

 

[SlowMyRoll]

New tires , when I was a teenager I worked at Montgomery Wards auto center in Topanga Plaza , started as a tire buster then I worked in the basement of the auto center as a tire adjuster and left as an installer . as an installer I installed batteries, oil changes , all the after market kits such as variable speed wind shield wiper controllers , cruise controls and even sun roofs . But nothing reminds more of that time than the concentrated smell of new tires . Good times

I wasn’t going to post but I was thinking the same thing a room full of new tires. The more the better!

 

[SoCalDave]

The freshly cut tobacco stalks hanging/curing in my best friend's grandparents barn. Cutting and stalking that stuff was brutal but the sting from a tobacco worm was the worst.

 

[MOUZER]

Vicks vapor rub. Mom used to rub it on my chest when I was sick .

 

[bowtiejunkie]

Smell of a bicycle shop. They largely still smell the same today. A bike equaled freedom to roam.

Leather shoe polish. Reminds me of my Grandpa and also the shoe shine stations you'd see at airports or busy downtown sidewalks. The chatter, the newspapers, you just figured great conversations were happening.

 

[Kenboat]

Worked with Jerry Hallock in Toledo when in high school repairing and painting cars, still love the small of a body shop, Bondo, lacquer thinner, and primer.
He taught me a lot about cars, life, and hard work!

 

[OCMerrill]

The smell molten plastic as early in my life as I can remember. H&H injection molder in LA somewhere. They were a contract injection molder for Mattel Toys where my Dad worked as a tooling engineer. On some fridays I would ditch school so I could walk the plant with him as he babysitted new tooling. Plastic and Diecast.

To this day I still have Hot Wheels with no MFG date from the 60's. They are supposed to be rare and of some value. They will never be sold and most are beat pretty good.

Parker and I can still smell it about 10 miles past Vidal on the way in.
Ocean. We fished constantly out of Dana from 1974 to 1985 on my Dad's partner boat Skipjack.
Fish...predominately cut Macke. The frozen was the worst.

 

[Boatymcboatface]

It’s a flood of memories as soon as you light one!

 

[Roosky01]

Homemade bread in the oven. Takes me right back to Saturday mornings at my G-Ma's house where she'd be baking for the upcoming week.

That woman was a damn machine.

 

[monkeyswrench]

Homemade bread in the oven. Takes me right back to Saturday mornings at my G-Ma's house where she'd be baking for the upcoming week.

That woman was a damn machine.

Saturday mornings at my Grandma's place she was always making a giant pot of menudo. Pops loved it...to this day, when I smell it, it reminds me of her old house.

It also reminds me of being hungover, and doing my best not to blow chunks on a roof Haven't had it in at least 15 years

 

[Chili Palmer]

It’s a flood of memories as soon as you light one! View attachment 1453390

For me it was the smell of the smoke that came from the “snakes” and the smoke pots. Those stand out because those were daytime fireworks and those were the ones that my dad and uncles would let me and my cousins have in the afternoon, but don’t burn anything down. Some of those burn marks on the curb from the snakes are still there 50 years later.