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Across the Fence:  Scents that take you back to wonderful places...  |
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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
4810 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4810 Posts |
 Posted - Dec 04 2009 : 07:55:39 AM
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This morning, an older lady I work with passed by my desk and I got a an immediate sensory memory from childhood...I asked her what perfume she was wearing, and she said "Estee Lauder's Youth Dew"...from first "sniff" I was transported to the Winter of 1977, when we lived in rural Chester, West Virginia. Mom worked 2 days a week in "somewhat" nearby Wheeling, doing books for a doctor. It was soooo cold that winter, and for Christmas, daddy bought her this full length wine-colored leather coat (with a belt!) she'd been pining over at a department store window in Pittsburgh. She wore it EVERYWHERE. When she would come in from work that winter, I remember rushing to hug her and smelling "Youth Dew", the lovely scent of leather and the bitter winter cold, all wrapped up in one glorious mix of scents.
I didn't realize Youth Dew was still on the market...now only if Estee Lauder could add leather and winter cold to it....I would be forever young!!
This time of year is full of sensory memories with all the baking and yuletide festivities. Do you have any particular "smell" that takes you back to a good place?
Musings from our family in the Bluegrass http://sweetvioletmae.blogspot.com/ |
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beekeepersgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
1423 Posts
Luanne
Cresco
PA
USA
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Posted - Dec 04 2009 : 08:29:42 AM
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Every fall my mother and I would go to the Eastern States Exposition in Springfield, MA. It was the largest fair I had ever seen. There was a vendor there every year with huge bins of dried lavender. Every time I smell lavender I think of going to that fair with Mom and always coming home wiht a big bag full to last us for the next year. Amazing how a smell can take you back, right?
Luanne
beekeepersgirl
Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.
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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
4810 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4810 Posts |
Posted - Dec 04 2009 : 08:39:24 AM
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What a lovely memory, Bee...and it's so true. I was so amazed at how quickly my mind retreated, and also how "specific" and strong the memory was. I haven't thought of West Virginia in many, many moons. I was so small, so I don't remember very much.
I also have this experience with songs, too...
Musings from our family in the Bluegrass http://sweetvioletmae.blogspot.com/ |
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Merry
True Blue Farmgirl
765 Posts
Merry
Ankeny
Iowa
USA
765 Posts |
Posted - Dec 04 2009 : 08:52:45 AM
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I bought some honeysuckle fragrance by Demeter because it reminds me of when my dad would take us for Sunday drives in the summer and I would get just a whiff of honeysuckle. It also reminded me of the times a bee flew in the car!
Merry
Farmgirl #536
http://iowafoodcoop.blogspot.com
http://afarminmyheart.blogspot.com/
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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
4810 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4810 Posts |
Posted - Dec 04 2009 : 08:57:00 AM
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Aren't the Demeter fragrances so unique and wonderful?! I have the wet garden one, and the tomato, because it reminds me of my Great Grandmother's garden.
Such a nice memory, Merry, even WITH the bee in the car!!! 
Musings from our family in the Bluegrass http://sweetvioletmae.blogspot.com/ |
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knitnpickinatune
True Blue Farmgirl
1140 Posts
Sherrie
Gardena
California
USA
1140 Posts |
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Merry
True Blue Farmgirl
765 Posts
Merry
Ankeny
Iowa
USA
765 Posts |
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cheneygal
True Blue Farmgirl
503 Posts
Suzie
Cheney
Wa.
USA
503 Posts |
Posted - Dec 04 2009 : 5:21:27 PM
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Violet, how funny that you brought up "scents from the past", I had some old friends stop by last wknd., hadn't seen them in at least 15 years, Barb hugged me and it took me back to 15 yrs. ago, and longer as she wears Youth Dew also....as did my aunt from as long ago as I can remember!! I must need some "new stuff" because mine sure doesn't smell like Barb's did!!! Also....the scent of frangipani takes me back to my girlhood, Mom had a Christmas candle that was of that scent, and I loved it, and I think somehwere I still have a little stub of that candle!!1
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dutchy
True Blue Farmgirl
4427 Posts
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Posted - Dec 05 2009 : 12:41:04 AM
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Believe it or not, but MOTHBALLS bring me back to my Opi and Omi's hopuse straight away, lol.
Omi always had mothballs in her chest of drawers in the frontroom and whenever I opened one of those drawers the smell came to me. I loved it. I don't love it anymore but it brings me wonderful memories of my sweet omi.
Hugs from Marian/Dutchy, a farmgirl from the Netherlands :)
My personal blog:
http://just-me-a-dutch-girl.blogspot.com/
Almost daily updates on me and mine :)
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AveburyRose
Farmgirl at Heart
2 Posts
DJ
United Kingdom
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Posted - Dec 05 2009 : 09:49:22 AM
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My grandfather used to own an old-fashioned independent pharmacy. Every evening after closing, he sprinkled some sort of sawdust to oil all the floors. Then we would sweep it up with long brooms. I can still smell that sawdust...but I can also smell the ice cream in the freezer where you could go scoop up ice cream. It was 5 cents a cone.
And my late dad....smelled like Old Spice. Remember that?
High school....it was Eau de Love...or nothing. <sigh>
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herblady55
True Blue Farmgirl
3470 Posts
Judy
Louisville
Ohio(Stark Co)
USA
3470 Posts |
Posted - Dec 05 2009 : 10:07:01 AM
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My mom always had a Bayberry candle at Christmas. I still love that scent but can't find it anymore. The stuff they call Bayberry now is so different. Mom still has a stub of her old candle and we sniff it all the time. When I do I'm transported back in time and I'm a little girl again. :-)
Judy
Hugs&Squeezles!
I am not contained between my hat and my boots! -Walt Whitman- |
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Merry
True Blue Farmgirl
765 Posts
Merry
Ankeny
Iowa
USA
765 Posts |
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CountryBorn
True Blue Farmgirl
1545 Posts
Mary Jane
New York
USA
1545 Posts |
Posted - Dec 05 2009 : 11:27:16 AM
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I am with Sherry, pine scent. It always takes me back to where I was born. When we go to the Adirondacks, I just can't get enough of the smell, it just makes me feel so relaxed and good. Funny I dislike pine scented candles and sprays though. I swear they have changed the scent of Bayberry candles. Mom always had them on the table for Christmas dinner, they don't smell the same anymore.
MJ
MJ
There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do. Freya Stark |
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Merry
True Blue Farmgirl
765 Posts
Merry
Ankeny
Iowa
USA
765 Posts |
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jpbluesky
True Blue Farmgirl
6066 Posts
Jeannie
Florida
USA
6066 Posts |
Posted - Dec 05 2009 : 11:55:06 AM
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Old Spice definitely reminds me of daddy. My mother wore a deordorant called Everdry, and not too long ago, I bought a lotion for my face, and when I put it on, I thought of my mom, and then recalled my lotion smelled like her long ago deodorant!
Farmgirl Sister # 31
www.blueskyjeannie.blogspot.com
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levisgrammy
True Blue Farmgirl
9403 Posts
Denise
Beavercreek
Ohio
USA
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Posted - Dec 05 2009 : 6:58:37 PM
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My aunt had the biggest most gorgeous lilac bush outside her back door and it would just perfume the whole place in the spring. Everytime I smell lilac, and it's my favorite scent, it takes me back to the times I spent with her at that house.
God is good....all the time.
Denise
www.torisgram.etsy.com |
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couggardengirl
True Blue Farmgirl
89 Posts
Bridgette
Clarkston
WA
USA
89 Posts |
Posted - Dec 05 2009 : 9:05:02 PM
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| Just before my grandfather retired they purchased their "beach house." Being near the water and only used part of the year and old the house always had this musty sort of smell. Years ago the old house was torn down and they built the new house on the same property, they've moved in to town and we now only use the "beach house" when we come to visit them in town. I still remember walking though the door of the "new" house last time and being hit with the "old house" smell....it brought back such great memories of times at the beach, fresh crab dinners in the summer kitchen...collecting shells etc. Its that same kind of smell that comes from the pages of an old book! I love it! |
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AlyssaMarie
True Blue Farmgirl
287 Posts
AlyssaMarie
Palouse
Washington
USA
287 Posts |
Posted - Dec 05 2009 : 9:56:46 PM
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My grandparents heated their small home mostly with a wood stove that was in the main living room. I remember the smell of the cut wood and the smoke that to me was always very different than a campfire. It was a unique smell all of its own and it always reminds me of the huge family gatherings and fun times we had growing up there. In fact that is where I'll be taking MY children this Christmas Eve. I just know my grandma (grandpa passed away a few years ago) will have that fire roaring.
AlyssaMarie @ Link'd Hearts Ranch
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