Comments on: The Scent of Childhood

By: Sherry

Sherry — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:24:53 +0000

It’s just so funny because when my son and I were there just 2 weeks before that, you couldn’t smell it! I’m so glad you were able to enjoy those smells of childhood. I had such a good time with you guys on Saturday! I’m still dreaming of the gelato.

By: Sandra Topper

Sandra Topper — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:45:23 +0000

Apples and garlic together at the same time. It’s an odd combination, I know! It sends me back to my great uncle’s farm whom I lived with between the age of 4-6. Not only was he a family practice physician, but a surgeon and and obstetrician and he owned a very large race horse farm. He was constantly on the go – between the delivery room and the barn. He was a very funny, warm and compassionate man. Twice a week I would sit with him at the kitchen table and with exact precision he’d core 2 dozen apples in a matter of minutes. Once I had finished stuffing a clove of garlic into each, we would head out to the barn and give one to each of the horses. I have many fond memories of the farm and many of them are linked to smell. In fact I have been following my nose all of my life.

By: Katja of Skimbaco

Katja of Skimbaco — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 06:55:22 +0000

I loved this post!!! My childhood smell is the ocean, the salty fresh water of Baltic Sea, we spent all summers on a boat sailing around the archipelago. While it’s winter time, and I can’t smell it now even on the coast, but ever since we moved to Sweden, it’s been nostalgia after nostalgia with products I haven’t seen in years, my childhood singing idol still singing on TV, now just 20 years older… I saw news in Finnish on TV too, and it was so weird to be able to be home but watch the news in my own language.
Thanks for sharing this post, and the scent of eucalyptus.

By: Candice @ Fashionably Organized

Candice @ Fashionably Organized — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 03:37:03 +0000

Lolli,
What a beautiful post. Childhood smells are so powerful. About 2 years ago I went over to my grandmother’s best friend’s house, and began to cry when I went in the house. The smell of her cooking smelled exactly like my grandmother’s house did when I was a kid. At that time my grandmother had been deceased for 16 years, yet I could smell that cooking just like I was a kid walking into her house. Smell is a very powerful sense.

By: Kelly

Kelly — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 23:18:27 +0000

This is a lovely post, Lolli. The smell of my childhood would must definitely be chlorine. We practically lived at the neighborhood pool that was literally in our backyard.

By: Becca Bernstein

Becca Bernstein — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 20:32:15 +0000

This post is written like a poem and while the moment jogged memories in you. It also jogged them in me. I remember tangerines in our yard from the tree, the beach, one mile away, and the sound of the diesel in my Mom’s car.

By: Dawn Sandomeno

Dawn Sandomeno — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 17:28:19 +0000

The smell of sun tan lotion and chlorine will always remind me of the pool we had in our backyard growing up. Summers were always the BEST! My Dad took such great care of the pool and would play with us for hours. He’d put tiki torches at night and we would BBQ. I miss him.

By: Annie @ Mama Dweeb

Annie @ Mama Dweeb — Tue, 06 Mar 2012 16:47:31 +0000

This was a very beautiful post Lolli! Wow, how enchanting. I could feel the sun and smell the tree as you took me for a walk in this post. (I really wish I was there with you!)

And those photos are gorgeous too!

What scent triggers my memories? Garlic frying in a pan reminds me of my grandpa. Vinegar and oil on the salad too! He was part italian and cooked like it!