Hey Pandas, What Is Your Favorite Scent Or Smell That Makes You Relive A Memory?

My boyfriend's cologne. Since we are in a long distance relationship, the smell of his cologne reminds of the happy times we were together.

Peppermint and tobacco snuff remind me of my grandfather who died in 1991. Miss him to this very day. 😢

The way the Earth smells after it just starts to sprinkle rain after a long, dry spell. It smells like “Ahhhhhh”.

Lilacs remind me of every spring I had

Fresh cut grass — reminds me of being a kid, waking up on a summer morning, no school, total freedom

Clean linen....reminds me of summer months hanging out the washing on the line, and deeply breathing the scent in....nicest smell ever!

There was a smell that I used to love as a young child that I never knew what it was. My dad and his friends would go into the garage where I wasn't allowed to go and I would smell that smell and just think oh my God I love it. When I was a bit older maybe 13 I was walking through a campground with my aunt when I smelled the smell again. I asked her what it was and she answered disgustedly marijuana. It turns out that was the smell I had loved all those years and reminded me of my father. Now I use medical marijuana and I still love the smell. It's definitely a love it or hate it smell.

Mint.
My mom used to have a peppermint plant outside her house when I was really young. I remember she'd make mint tea with it for special occasions. It's my favorite kind of tea now

Wood, reminds me of Home Depot and stressful trips with my fam there when I was little

Bath & Body. moonlight path. It was my moms favorite. Bittersweet.

Honeysuckle and Ivory Soap. My Great Grandmother (b. 1881) lived at the bottom of a bluff. The whole hillside was covered in honeysuckle. She always used Ivory Soap.
Really good memories.

Beef and tomato pot noodle. I open the pot and I sniff and it’s 1993 and I earn £2.50 an hour, I’m young and carefree and my t1ts are 3 inches higher up than they are now and I’m 2 stone lighter and I live off pot noodles as they’re 29p a pot from Safeway…

(Sings) those were the days my friend, we thought they’d never end, la la la…

The smell of freedom. It makes me relive the times before school started, when we were free and wild at the hours before 7.30a.m.

A mix of Big Red gum and cigarettes. My mom kept both in her purse and the two smells comingled. She died when I was a teen and I used to keep a stick of gum and a few cigarettes around just to remind me of her.

Smell of lemon leaves, reminds me of the gleaming sun of the winters.

A newly opened can of Play-doh. We only had it once in my whole childhood. It must have made a big impression on me.

We lived on a dairy farm and this huge bulk tank truck came to pick up our milk. The driver was fun and paid attention to us kids. His truck burned diesel - I did not know that then - but I loved the smell and associated it with him coming to our place. I still get nostalgic every time I get a whiff! (Yuck, I know, but can’t help what comes to mind when you remember a happy memory.)

The smell of an empty theater. I don’t don’t if it’s the musty seats and curtains, the dust being heated up by the stage lights, or the smell of the paint that’s often used on the sets or the stage floor, but an empty theater will throw me back and make me so nostalgic for my performing days.

the smell of leather. reminds me of the chairs in my family’s library, i spend hours reading there.

also plastic fall leaf strand things: i always push my face in them when they appear in michael’s

the smell of grass, sweat, and those friday night lights: they have a specific smell to them. even though i still play it, reminds me of football