Talking of smells………

Elizabeth Arden's Blue Grasse was my mother's scent, I never liked it, but it does bring back memories!

‘Khadine’ by Yardley was the soap, talc and perfume I took with me into hospital when I had my children, 50 and 48 years ago.

Still have a tin of the talc in the garage! When I sniff it, am transported back to those ‘halcyon’ days.

Where have the years gone?

Daddima where can I find liquid Savlon please?
I've looked everywhere for this!

Germolene was a smell I associate with my father. He used it if he got cuts and grazes in the garden.

Ah Germolene!

My gran used 4711 too, sometimes when I see it on the shelf in Boots, I have a little sniff!. My grandad always used Old Spice.

Aveline

Ah Germolene!

Of course it’s in a tube now, but I remember it being in a small cream coloured tin and I still use it…..

🎵 🎵 Germoline is the ointment to use
To stop infection and keep wounds clean
You know you're safe with Germoline 🎵🎵
That was the address. (I think 🤔)

Ad not address!

I still like white musk.

Germoline is an interesting one isn;t it? i reminds me of my Gran

TCP reminds me of my father

Lavender was my Grandmother's favourite scent and colour too. It is also mine.

TCP reminds me of a school trip to Switzerland, back in the 60s. Each student had to take a mini first aid kit, mine included TCP which spilt in my case!

My mum always used Palmolive soap so reminds me of her if I smell it.

Mine is the smell of chamomile - laying in long grass looking at the blue sky and smelling the chamomile I had crushed.

It immediately takes me back to childhood.

TCP liquid reminds me of the first-aid box in school!

Wet dog smell which I liked as my Aunt had some kind of enormous hound, a bit fat and unfit with a sad face, it was very cuddly and friendly but had to stay in the garden or kennel a lot as wasn’t allowed in the house much.It did have a nice easy life tho, had walks and a big garden and all the neighbours loved it and gave it little treats which explained the fatness.
If I smell a friend’s dog on a rainy day ( why do they always shake themselves next to me?) it takes me back to being about seven years old and nestling up to Teddy, fat, damp and golden coloured dog.

Morny 'Sandalwood' always remindsme of a much loved grandmother.

The scent of frangpani always reminds me of childhood years spent in Singapore and Malaya (as it was)

NotSpaghetti

Daddima where can I find liquid Savlon please?
I've looked everywhere for this!

eBay, but it’s not cheap!

Calendargirl, a bit off the point, but when I had my second baby , a girl in the ward called her bab Khadine after the perfume, bet there aren’t many of those around.

Daddima

NotSpaghetti

Daddima where can I find liquid Savlon please?
I've looked everywhere for this!

eBay, but it’s not cheap!

100ml bottles! £48.00 a litre

Bronnley lavender soap - I bought it as a little luxury to take into hospital (hysterectomy op). The nurse who helped me wash myself afterwards called all the others over to smell my gorgeous soap!
Raw ripe plums - Grandad's smallholding, shinning up the huge Bramley tree, dropping onto the barn roof & filching fresh plums laid out on sacking to dry.
L'Aimant perfume - a less wonderful memory, as it meant my mother was in the room and I was certain to be getting a hard time very soon for some misdemeanour or other.

Turpentine and oil paint takes me straight back to my dad's studio although I was only two years of age then. I spent most of my days in there while my mum worked as a waitress. A large cardboard box served as a playpen.

Imperial Leather soap, a long ago lover.