the fountain of youth?

[unclej]

back in the days when i wore suits to work and drove new cars and all that other cool stuff that i don't do any more i was a complete snob about cologne. the only thing that i would wear was aramis and the only place you could get it in dallas at the time was neiman marcus.

in the last 15 or so years i've been a lot more down to earth and actually don't wear even aftershave 99% of the time. but my nephew knew that i used to wear it and gave me a bottle for christmas which i just opened for the first time tonight. one smell and i was 30 years old again steppin' out for a night of lady chasin'.

got anything that zipps you back in time like that?

 

[k¡tty]

The shampoo Breck was the only brand my mother bought when I was growing up.. just the smell takes me back to when I was a little girl. I hear it's coming back again in popularity.. I'll have to check it out soon. I could stand feeling young again.

 

[unclej]

i know what you mean. we always kept prell around and my dad used vitalis hair stuff and old spice aftershave. pond's cold cream is an old smell also.

 

[marksgirl]

White Shoulders, my mother wore it when I was little, there was this beer shampoo that I remember that smelled sooooooo gooooood!

 

[Gilly Bean]

I don't think I'm old enough yet.


However, things from when I was a kid make me recall the era.

Things like the old brown, orange, and yellow tupperware, shag carpet, Baby sitters club books, the Goonies..

Gah! I'm a product of the 80's!

 

[WaxNWane]

It's almost always smells with me.

Sometimes they pop up unsolicited - like olfactory deja vu. I can still smell the carpet at my grandparent's house from falling asleep on the floor, or the smell of the library in my elementary school, and I haven't been around either in 15 or 20 years. Something else might make me think about it, but it's the smell that'll make the image fully realized. Often it's things I didn't even know I remembered.

 

[Gil_Favor]

I had an Aunt who used to wear a certain perfume, I dont recall the name. She passed on in the late 60s, I was at a store recently and a little old lady had the same perfume on. The memory was amazing

 

[eagleyez]

olfactory memory is one of the most acute,

for me it would be this stuff called Hai Karate (spelling?)

one whiff and Im in the eighth grade chasing girlies with the nuns chasing me...silly nuns