Memories from way back

Baggs

I use Germolene (pink) all the time on my very frequent garden-induced scratches.

My father-in-law swore by Savlon.

We use it regularly too, scratches and insect bites, it’s really effective.
I also use Nivea, a good cheap skin cream.

Nan always had Cussions Imperial Leather Soap, so evocotive reminds me of her every time.It’s sandalwood apparently.

I recently took my granddaughter to Norfolk for a weeks beach holiday. I took some Johnsons talcum powder which is good for getting sand off feet. The smell took me back to my own children as babies, always used at bathtime, although now it’s a big no no to use.
My favourite smell that has special memories is Badedas which my Mum always used.

Primrose53, that's a lovely story of a Tweed memory and yes I agree, it is evocative. I think it may still be available.

Babs03, I know just the orange juice you mean and I used to love it.

Grannynannywanny, I also had to have a spoonful of Malt each day as a child and I loved the taste. I once made a Malt Loaf and it turned out ok, if I make it again though I think I would put more Malt in it!

Odd fellows my late dad always had a bag of these in his coat pocket.Recently in a garden centre I could smell them as I walked in the door and wandered about trying to find them….alas it was a scented candle but the smell had me smiling to myself all day

Joannapiano, I have been trying to find Pond's Cold Cream and I can't find it anywhere. Please could you tell me where you are able to buy it from?

Iwas stopped in Ayr town centre by a soldier in uniform who asked if he could give me a cuddle because I “smelled like his mum” It was Amarige and I gave him a hug,my OH couldn’t.t stop laughing ,said it was the best chat up line he,d heard for years.Amarige which I still wear is classed asa “vintage”perfume.Same as me

I still use TCP, and would buy Germolene if I ever saw any! Where did any of you find it?

Ditto to Old Spice.
And not when I was a child, but in very early 20s, Brut! Seemed so flash then, but that was probably because the bloke I knew who invariably smelt of it was loaded. Well, compared to permanently skint students like me and dh, anyway.

Not that I’m ever likely to smell anything like it again, but my father’s pipe tobacco. Cope’s Escudo, in little tins that as children siblings and I sometimes managed to buy for him for Christmas.

paddyann54, I love Amarige! Used to wear it a lot. Must drop the odd hint once we’re nearer to 🎄.

I wish we were still able to use creosote on fences, the smell always took me back to my dad’s shed.

Does anyone remember the bottles with a wick that you pulled up -an early form of air freshener. Was it called Dispel?

Superdrug have Germolene - a small tube is just under two pounds Witzend

Cigarette smoke. I know that sounds gross but my old dad smoked 40 unfiltered a day, until the doc advised him to stop in his late forties, so whenever he hugged me as a child his clothes smelled of cigarette smoke.
I suppose our house reeked of it as well.
So now it brings back memories of him when I was a child. Never smoked myself though, considered it a bad habit, but in my old dads day it was a very different matter, apparently they put out containers of cigarettes in the middle of tables at dance halls, my old mum would smoke one to look cool. And my mum and dad met outside a dance hall in Manchester, he was smoking and she asked for a light, the rest is history.

Lemon Balm plants. Mum had a plant by the front gate when I was a little girl.

i remember when i was 9-10 i bought a packet of cigarettes for my father from a vending machine.
i gave them to him as a gift.
he took them and very politely said, thank you, but i don't smoke.
i had just assumed that cigarettes were like sweets for adults, and that's what they'd like.
i think i chose rothmans as i supposed they were posh.

Germolene was £1.50 in PoundLand last week.

I love the smell of bleach now it takes me back to the swimming pool I went to as a child . Methylated spirit reminds me of my mum. She was a health visitor and must have used it for something .

Yes, Old Spice, also Brut Estee Lauder Youth Dew and Patchouli.

I used to love 4711 eau de Cologne. I thought it was very exotic. I used to go down to the local shop and buy senior service cigarettes for my dad, gob stoppers that changed colours when you sucked them and sherbet with a licorice straw. I remember little blue bags they put in the washing to make it whiter- Dolly blue or something like that. My mum used to make me go down the road to buy paraffin for the little stove. It was so heavy, I remember I could scarcely carry it. I would have been about 6. I wouldn’t have let my own children do that. Tough times.

Baggs

I use Germolene (pink) all the time on my very frequent garden-induced scratches.

My father-in-law swore by Savlon.

I love Germolene too. Nothing like it.

never had Germolene but mum used lots of Dettol lovely fresh smell.
we had egg and lemon shampoo dont seem to make it anymore later on beer shampoo in sachets.
the glorious smells from the kitchen of mum baking making jams and bottling fruit and veg

The mention of beer shampoo has reminded me of my shampoo in the 60s. The container was a little orange coloured plastic barrel about the size of a jif lemon . It was called Linco beer.

My mum used iodine on cuts and grazed knees. Ouch.
But so many memories on this thread. Has our sense of smell changed now or do things just not smell as strong, memorable or as unique? Or taste as good.
School ink anyone? Poured into little china ink wells on our desks which you covered with a little brass sliding lid. The ink had a bitter smell. And the classroom smell with all the wooden desks

I don't remember any smells in particular. Somehow my mother managed to do everything without lingering smells. Perhaps she just aired well. Both parents even smoked!

At a push I can recall the smell of hankies boiling in an old brown saucepan with soda crystals. And of course Germolene.