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

I remember Aqua Manda , think another I loved was Blue Grass- hope my memory serves me well on that ?

@Shelflife. Indeed it does !! I loved Blue grass - I think it was made by Elizabeth Arden and the bottle was gorgeous. I also remember when I first discovered Anais Anais - I was in my late teens and thought I was ever so sophisticated !!

Happy days !! Pammiel.

felice
4711 is still available. In the same little bottles, too!

Tar, oh yes, I love the smell.
My dad worked on a lorry & I just love the smell of the thick black grease. That, brillcreme & Old Spice aftershave remind me of him so much. Such lovely memories!

Kate1949

Tar. When they used to tar the roads. We used to watch the steam rollers rolling down the street.

My MiL apparently used to take my late DH to roadworks to breathe in the smell of tar when he had a cough/cold ?

I loved aqua manda too. Saw it on sale a few years ago and tried it, glad I did because it wasn't the same, far too clove based, not citrussy and sweet.
My dad used hair oil when I was little, called honey and flowers. Very distinctive scent
In a winters day, the smell of coal fires, in Scotland the scent of peat fires. One nasty smell thankful hs gone is the brickwork, that filled your lungs with sulphur dioxide, Lord knows what that did to your lungs. Back in the day when you had small local slaughterhouses the blood was spread on the fields afterwards, not nice at all. Hate the smell of petrol and remember when I was little it made me. Feel really sick in the car afterwards

Parma violet sweets, mums Ponds vanishing cream and dads greenhouse with the warm tomatoes and his first new potatoes straight out of the garden. Opening a brand new book I use a kindle now to read in the night.

PinkCosmos Oh those Yardley perfumes! Sea Jade was one of my favourites. You could get it in a sort of cream in a little glass jar. Takes me right back to the 70s!!!

"Love mist by Yardley ", in a spray can I was told my much younger BIL accused me of the stink after playing with his dog. .

I loved the smell of pear drops, scones in the oven, the christmas eve smell of oranges, roast pork, or chicken, cinnamon etc. I too loved the clitheroe kid.

The smell of the white school glue, in pots, that reminded me of marzipan.

The whiff you got when going past Brentford gas works on the trolley bus.

I miss the days when I would come home from school and mom's delicious homemade bread would be ready to eat. Actually everything she made smelled good. ?

shysal

The smell of steam engines. I lived near a railway as a child and liked to stand on the bridge as the train went underneath.

Lucky to live near a heritage steam line, visit often, very nostalgic.