Weve had 10 books you remember from your childhood. Here are 10 smells (or, if you prefer, aromas) that have stayed with me. I nominate you all to share yours. 1. Linseed oil – for the oiling of cricket bats. Kids today don’t know they’re born. 2. Freshly mown grass – still up there with the best smells, no? 3. A room full of old, and I mean proper old, books – you get this when your mother is an antiquarian bookseller. 4. Cigarettes – both my parents smoked, one more assiduously than the other. It was one of your basic background smells in the 1970s, and I think we would be shocked and amazed by it today. 5. Crab apple jelly – we had a crab apple tree. Mum made jelly. It smelled, and tasted, nice. 6. Coffee – specifically: strong Turkish coffee, freshly ground in an impressive brass grinder. Still almost better to smell this than to taste it. Almost. 7. Bacon – being fried, obviously, not just sitting there being bacon. 8. Petrichor – the smell of recent rain on warm ground. I didn’t know that was what it was called back then, but I’m very glad there’s a word for it. 9. Incense – nothing religious about it, but Dad used sometimes to burn some in an incense burner and waft it around the house of an evening. Because nice smells. 10. Badedas bath foam – what can I say? I must have had a lot of baths. Or so few that each one was an occasion.
Posted on: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 10:31:22 +0000
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