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Posted: 7/29/2014 4:03:05 PM EDT
[#1]
I almost opened a troll account named "Einhorn" just so I could say "Yes, my steamer trunk."
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Posted: 7/29/2014 4:06:17 PM EDT
[#2]
Shalimar perfume - Mom
Vitalis or VO5 hair goo - Dad (hell, I use it now) Fiberglass - my surfer days Wet dog - treasured pets Diesel exhaust - burn pits in Iraq Open pit BBQ - Iraq Top 4 are comfort smells, the bottom 2 not so much, but I did have it pretty easy over there. |
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Posted: 7/29/2014 4:06:32 PM EDT
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The smell of Winston cigarettes or the smoke from one reminds me of my Dad, because that was the brand he smoked.
The smell of musty grain reminds me of riding around in the combine with my Dad when I was a kid. The smell of freshly tilled soil takes me back to my childhood and farming with my Dad (I miss it almost as much as I miss my Dad). The smell of off road diesel does it too. The smell of various grains takes me back to farming and my grain hauling days. The smell of burnt rubber takes me back to cruising around on Friday and Saturday nights when I was a teenager, peeling rubber, raising a little hell, and just having some fun with cars. The smell of on road Diesel fuel takes me back to driving truck (I drove for 10 years). And the smell of burnt gunpowder, well, it just puts a smile on my face. 
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Posted: 7/29/2014 4:06:41 PM EDT
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Sometimes when I deploy or have to get training gear it has a musty smell. It reminds me of being 5 or 6 years old and finding dad's duffel bag in the closet and eating the MRE cheese and crackers he had leftover inside it and playing with his mess kit. Seems every time I found it there was a new MRE food to try.
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Posted: 7/29/2014 4:06:58 PM EDT
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The smell of Southern Comfort still makes me retch, it's probably been 8 years. What a horrible night that was. This but 40 years ago |
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Posted: 7/29/2014 4:09:19 PM EDT
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Certain perfumes make me think of my Grandma. Nothing specific. Just that "old lady perfume" smell.
I was digging around in an old box of random stuff and found an old bottle of Hugo Boss cologne. Sprayed it and was instantly brought back to about 8th grade, when I wore it. The specific memory was of the night my friend and I were going out to the movies with his cousin and her friend. Like a double date. It was weird how clear it all came back, from when I was so young. |
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Posted: 7/29/2014 4:14:00 PM EDT
[#7]
Titty sweat
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Posted: 7/29/2014 4:14:52 PM EDT
[#8]
Quote HistoryQuoted: I almost opened a troll account named "Einhorn" just so I could say "Yes, my steamer trunk."  |
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Posted: 7/29/2014 4:15:34 PM EDT
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The smell of meatballs frying in olive oil take me back to a better time
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Posted: 7/29/2014 4:22:36 PM EDT
[#10]
Quote HistoryQuoted:
The smell of Southern Comfort still makes me retch, it's probably been 8 years. What a horrible night that was.
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Posted: 7/29/2014 4:27:24 PM EDT
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I can't even look at a bottle of Jim Beam.
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The smell of Southern Comfort still makes me retch, it's probably been 8 years. What a horrible night that was.
2 8th graders.................one 1/5th of Scoresby $8.00 bottle of scotch............................................ 
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Posted: 7/29/2014 4:34:49 PM EDT
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Tanqueray Gin.
Me and three buddies ended up with a 5th of that vile shit on a Saturday afternoon. I can't stand the smell of gin to this day, and that was 36 years ago.
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Posted: 7/29/2014 4:35:24 PM EDT
[#13]
White lithium grease reminds me of my grandfather's garage.
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Posted: 7/29/2014 4:36:19 PM EDT
[#14]
Race fuel - track days on the bike
My favorite smell is fall, i love a cold crisp morning in the fall. |
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Posted: 7/29/2014 4:36:23 PM EDT
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I was brushing my teeth right now and I briefly caught a whiff of something that reminded me of the chow hall in basic training. The smell of the bagels specifically. We haven't had bagels here at home in a long time. Bagels in the chow hall of basic training?.....LOL How do you eat those in 30 seconds with an Airborne Ranger WW2 Korea combat veteran E7 DI screaming at you?..... Can't imagine what would happen if you'd have said yes...when one of those guys asked you if you wanted a "schmeer" with that! But that reminds me think I will pop one in the toaster oven right now and put some cream cheese on it....maybe with salsa...:) |
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Posted: 7/29/2014 4:36:34 PM EDT
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She smell of a kerosene heater makes me think of a childhood friend's home
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Posted: 7/29/2014 4:40:28 PM EDT
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I've lost 90% of my sense of smell. I can only smell things that are really strong. Unfortunately, those things are usually bad.
I did catch a wiff of a gal's perfume at work today. It was the same thing a girlfriend in high school wore. Triggered some fond memories. |
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Posted: 7/29/2014 4:40:34 PM EDT
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That slightly moldy, mildew smell from an old school surplus store.
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Posted: 7/29/2014 4:42:47 PM EDT
[#19]
Quote HistoryQuoted: That slightly moldy, mildew smell from an old school surplus store. |
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Posted: 7/29/2014 4:45:35 PM EDT
[#20]
Cheap flakey white deodorant = basic training
Diesel exhaust & awesome food being cooked outdoors = Latin America Two stroke exhaust = many fun times
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Posted: 7/29/2014 4:48:26 PM EDT
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There is a smell old airplanes have. Haven't quite put my finger on everything it's made up of, but last year a friend and I went to the 8th Air Force Museum. When I stuck my head up in the forward main wheel well - there it was.
Probably old hydraulic fluid among other things. |
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Posted: 7/29/2014 4:50:19 PM EDT
[#22]
Strawberry lip gloss!
Takes me back to the summer of 1980.....and my first girlfriend. |
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Posted: 7/29/2014 4:51:16 PM EDT
[#23]
Fresh cut wet grass reminds me of high school two a days
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Posted: 7/29/2014 4:51:38 PM EDT
[#24]
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<snip> Victoria's secret strawberries and champagne lotion This. The girl I was seeing before I met my wife used to wear this. We broke up 1999 so it's been a long time, but at first a slight whiff was like a slap in the face. |
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Posted: 7/29/2014 4:53:39 PM EDT
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A Victorias Secret perfume. Pretty much every stripper wore it. Ahhhhh the good ol days. They STILL DO!!!!
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Posted: 7/29/2014 4:55:45 PM EDT
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Death and transmission fluid. My first night as a road deputy.
Sometimes I can still smell my dad's cigarettes. It's odd because nobody smokes in my house. |
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Posted: 7/29/2014 4:57:12 PM EDT
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The smell inside a C-130....takes me back 40 years....
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Posted: 7/29/2014 4:58:31 PM EDT
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The smell of hairspray reminds me of some good times in the late 1980s.
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Posted: 7/29/2014 5:04:03 PM EDT
[#29]
The smell of diesel exhaust mixed with sea spray or salt water. Reminds me of many fishing trips. I love smelling it, because it means I'm out on the water...
ETA: Also the smell of cheap bath and bodyworks body spray. Reminds me of junior high school when girls bathed in that stuff. I didn't like junior high school so it's not really a pleasant smell...
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Posted: 7/29/2014 5:05:41 PM EDT
[#30]
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This. The girl I was seeing before I met my wife used to wear this. We broke up 1999 so it's been a long time, but at first a slight whiff was like a slap in the face. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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<snip> Victoria's secret strawberries and champagne lotion This. The girl I was seeing before I met my wife used to wear this. We broke up 1999 so it's been a long time, but at first a slight whiff was like a slap in the face. Same for me when I smell anything 'cucumber melon'. It's an instant time warp. |
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Posted: 7/29/2014 5:06:14 PM EDT
[#31]
Freshly spread asphalt and low tide reminds me of home when I was much younger.
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Posted: 7/29/2014 5:10:46 PM EDT
[#32]
Halston perfume = Megan Respecki circa 1984.
Bless you girl, wherever you are. |
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Posted: 7/29/2014 5:15:08 PM EDT
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There is an indescribable smell that someone's occurs early morning spring time when it is about to rain....that smell always takes me back to my first day of school as a little boy. It is the best feelin I have ever felt without the aid of a female
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Posted: 7/29/2014 5:17:44 PM EDT
[#34]
eucalyptus and moth balls always takes me back to my grand parents house.
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Posted: 7/29/2014 5:21:47 PM EDT
[#35]
Pine-Sol and diesel fuel is the smell of the Marine Corps.
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Posted: 7/29/2014 5:22:26 PM EDT
[#36]
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Garage on a hot day - especially if somebody just put the lawnmower away after using it: Grandpa's workshop at my Grandparent's place in southern Washington, visiting them in the Summer for 4th of July when I was a kid. There's grass, dust, old power tools, sawdust, old canvas, cardboard boxes, the smell of a warm plywood workbench, fishing gear that was never rinsed out 20 years ago, model airplane fuel, old gunpowder, boots...  This, to the word. Just substitute Ohio in for Washington. I miss you, Grandpa. |
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Posted: 7/29/2014 5:27:09 PM EDT
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smell of developing fluid and stop bath. in the darkroom, on the 2nd floor of the family photography studio. Started by grandpa in 1910.
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Posted: 7/29/2014 5:33:24 PM EDT
[#38]
For some reason, the smell of the grease inside of a wheel bearing that I recently disassembled sent me right to the shop classroom of a local junior high school (not the school I actually attended). My friend an I attended a week long day camp called 'Camp Invention' at this school two summers in a row when we were in elementary school. It has been over 10 years since we did that, but the smell of that grease sent me right back there.
I also recently used Caladryl lotion for the first time in several years, it brought me back to summers of my younger days (damn mosquitoes). |
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Posted: 7/29/2014 5:37:18 PM EDT
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Cigars- my dad
Diesel exhaust and coffee- my grandmother's house Spring and fall morning smells- going to school as a kid Old spice- my dad wore it back in the day and I wear it to work now. It illicits various memories. Some good, some bad. There's a particular perfume, the name of which I forget. When I smell that perfume it takes me back to a particular night and a very passionate kiss from a woman that I loved. Bittersweet memory. |
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Posted: 7/29/2014 5:53:18 PM EDT
[#40]
Had an incident back in 90 with some firewater from south of the border. Jose Cuervo reminds me of the night a hot married chic, also hopped up with some Jose, jumped in the elevator after me to have sex. Boy lucky for me, my Marine buddies threw her out.
To this day thr smell reminds me of that night. |
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Posted: 7/29/2014 5:53:30 PM EDT
[#41]
Diesel exhaust. I remember when I was a little kid and Mom took me & sis to the downtown Miller & Rhodes store. Exhaust from city buses driving by when we were walking down the street in the middle of downtown Richmond.
To this day when I smell diesel exhaust I flash on that trip. |
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Posted: 7/29/2014 6:01:08 PM EDT
[#42]
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Every guy that was a teenager in the 80s has fond memories triggered by Aquanet hair spray. That and Electric Youth perfume. On that same note, if someone passes by w/ Poison perfume it makes me notice. Dated a girl in HS/College that wore that exclusively. |
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Posted: 7/29/2014 6:27:08 PM EDT
[#43]
Tomato vines bring back my childhood summers..
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Posted: 7/29/2014 6:44:13 PM EDT
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Cigarette smoke on a cold winter morning takes me back to walking to class in college, I always loved the smell of cigarettes in the cold still morning air and I am not a regular smoker.
Hawaiian Tropic dark tanning oil. I had a girlfriend that wore it all summer, she was hot and she was the first big heartbreak of my life. A lot of feelings in one scent.
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Posted: 7/29/2014 6:46:46 PM EDT
[#45]
Grilled cheese and tomato soup, play-doh, gunpowder, big bowl of Halloween candy.
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Posted: 7/29/2014 6:52:30 PM EDT
[#46]
Cow manure, carbureted 350 Chevy exhaust, dirt in the woods, race fuel exhaust, rivers/fishing
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Posted: 7/29/2014 6:55:14 PM EDT
[#47]
Rain on s summer sidewalk.
The sound of a pressure canner jiggling. Oranges smell like Christmas, since thats the only time we got them in 1963. |
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Posted: 7/29/2014 6:55:53 PM EDT
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The smell of wintergreen reminds me of dipping for the first (and only) time.
I barfed all over my friends car.
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Posted: 7/29/2014 6:58:25 PM EDT
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The smell of your skin in the hot sun. Reminds me of when I was young fishing in our farm pond, no cares in the world other than hooking a bass!
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Posted: 7/29/2014 6:58:46 PM EDT
[#50]
Quote HistoryQuoted: cheap cigars and old motor oil. Grampa Smith. At my Grandpa Smith's it was Hi C, banannas, and chew. |
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