What tastes, sounds and smells do you miss from yesteryear?

Hellogirl1 - thanks for the heads up. I’ve just ordered two of the lovely Art Deco bottles !

Turps. I spent most of my pre-school years in my dad's studio and turps and oil paints are still my most evocative smells.

I think you`re right Infinity, but all I could find was the Eau de Cologne version.

Hellogirl1 - I wonder if it was the cream version of Coty L’Aimant that used to be in a little black bottle with a weeny sort of spatula in it ? I have a feeling the contents were pink but I may be mistaken !

The leather in my grandfathers Austin 7.

Does anyone remember ZamBuk?

Pink Germolene, and it`s lovely smell. It`s white now, and no smell, just not the same.
Infinity, my grandma used Coty l`Aimant, but the cream version, I bought a bottle from Amazon the other week, and it still smells lovely.
I know it`s not a sound or a smell, but I miss when my mother would cut a pomegranate in half between 2 of us, that half, plus a pin, kept us quiet for hours!

The paraffin heater that warmed the bathroom and anglo bubblegum

PaperMonster

*GreyDuster*. I found some coal tar soap, hurrah!!

DH always used Wrights Coal Tar soap as it was the only one which didn’t irritate his skin.
I lost him 3 1/2=years ago but still have a bar in each bathroom and the smell reminds me of him.

The smell and taste of Mum’s wimberry pie. Wimberries, wortleberries, whinberries, wild blueberries or whatever they are called in your area, were fiddly to pick. We children could spend all afternoon in the forest picking enough for a couple of pies but it was so worth it!

Creamola Foam

Trisha57 - what a great idea ! I’ll look for one on eBay and do the same. Thank you ?

Oh Gosh, I'm glad OP mentioned bacon rind. The best bit, and I haven't seen it for years.

Evostick, when my dad was mending our shoesoles.

When we used to go to the seaside - one week a year in a furnished flat in Filey - we would go down to the beach and "smell the ozone". Beaches smell so different now, that I suspect what we were smelling was the chemicals used to treat the sewage - but it smelled of holiday to us.

My Nan boiling up her washing.

I can still enjoy the smell and sound of steam trains, and of hot tar, as we live very close to a railway museum that runs a commercial tanker service from an oil depot twice a week, as well as steam trains and open workshop days on summer weekends.

I miss the taste of my mother’s homemade strawberry jam. No other jam has ever come close.

I was just thinking of my favourite smells before I read the thread and then discovered that my slightly strange preferences were echoed by others. Definitely the lovely smell from the steam roller, and also that strong smell of petrol. I also used to love catching a whiff of 4711 as my dad bought it for my mum every Christmas. Coty L’Aimant and Evening in Paris would remind me of going to dances.

One sound that obviously affected me was the “All Clear” which followed the siren, warning of a bomb raid. Once we heard the All Clear we could relax (I would have been 3 or 4).

Now I love the smell of grass after rain and also the smell of new pages in a bookshop. Once you own the book the smell goes.

Infinity2, my mum had a Stratton compact and Creme Puff- I've got it now and I went and bought a Max Factor Creme Puff refill to go in it just to remind me of those days. It smells exactly the same today as it did all those years ago!

GreyDuster. I found some coal tar soap, hurrah!!

What tastes and smells do I miss? Most of them since Dec 2019 when I picked up a nasty virus ?
Now texture and visual are everything ? lack of smell can come in handy ?

I’d forgotten that - an ice cream between two wafers - how wonderful that tasted !

The sight and sounds of a steamroller and hot tar, the taste of
Neapolitan ice cream in a block between two wafers, the smell of mown grass and dusty paths after a rain shower.
Fish paste and cucumber sandwiches and my mum making a cough remedy from sliced onions and ? vinegar/sugar?

Sorry I’m a newbie - didn’t realise this was an earlier thread !

I miss the smell of my mother’s dressing table - Coty L’Aimant perfume and her Stratton powder compact with Max Factor Creme Puff.

Grannybags

Wills whiff cigars?

The smell from two lilac trees close to my bedroom window, as a young child.