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Childhood Smells That Will Bring You Instant Nostalgia

by Brad Rosenberg

Published June 1, 2017

nostalgic smells

Making Homemade Jam

Homemade Jam / via knittingalife.com

Grape jelly, strawberry jam, apple butter were some our favorites that Mom would make back when we were children. Simmering fruit presents such a fragrance that leaves us remembering it every time we open a jar of jam.

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Play-Doh

Most likely the greatest smell ingrained into our memories, this sweet and salty smell was like no other smell in our toy box. We must have spent hours each week creating a whole universe full of figures, shapes, and other works. Just don’t be too misled, it doesn’t taste the way it smells!

Mimeograph Smell

The mimeograph machine was a stencil duplicator used as a low-cost printing press that works by forcing ink through a stencil onto paper. Remember getting our tests back and smelling that fresh smell on our papers?

Noxema

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Old-School Beauty / via NJ.com

This cooling, tingling skin cream has been severely popular with females for generations. That jar’s lid would come off and what followed next was a familiar menthol scent, more pleasant and welcoming than Vapo-Rub.

Brut Perfume

Do you remember this smell? My dad used to wear it all the time. It was a total unisex perfume. Whenever I smell that musky scent I get taken back to 1964 and that smell lingered out from my parent’s bathroom.

 

What smells do you remember from when you were little?

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