Remembering Childhood Fragrances
Decorating By SweetInspirations Updated 5 Nov 2006 , 4:09am by JaneK
Have you even been mixing up a cake batter and a memory pops in your mind...... Everytime I use almond flavoring I think of my dear grandmothers "Jergens Hand Lotion" that she had on her nightstand for as long as I can remember. It had that sweet cherry smell that is a fragrance of comfort to me, still in my memory today..... 
I loved the smell of that lotion, and it also reminds me of going to my grandmothers house. My Great Grandmother lived with her and they both used it. I will probably start thinking of them when I use my almond extract. Thanks for the pleasant memories.
LOL!
That is so funny that you brought this up! I thought I was the only one who associated smells with memories! Good or bad, I have a memory to almost every smell.
At my wedding, I swear I smelled my great grandma who past away about a year before that. The smell of bacon cooking and coffee brewing reminds me of being up at the cabin with grandpa and grandma. I love that smell, it's so comforting to me!
Shalimar perfume reminds me of my mom and when I was a littel girl - she use to wear it everytime she and my dad were going out on a 'date'. But the best smell by far is my children, especially smelling their heads after a bath when they were babies - nothing else like it..........
smell is the sense closest linked to memory - that's how aromatherapy works - associate a smell with a pleasant feeling and then you use the scent tore-evoke that feeling when you're feeling stressed.
I love the smell of female body odour (sweaty pits!) which is very weird, but it's because my primary school teacher must have had bad armpit smell - now everytime I smell the same smell it transports me right back! When I was little I didn't realise it was a sweaty smell and thought it was just the smell of my teacher who I loved!
Also love the smell of wet dog as it reminds me of my grandad and his dog. Crayons, of course, and musty Enid Blyton books. In fact I'm a primary school teacher and I ask my class to sniff their reading books before we start reading to see if we like how they smell.
Anyway, back to the cake decorating!
i have a lip chap that's from avon, and when i smell it it reminds me of my waterbaby when i was like... 5? i think its just baby powder smell, but other then the lip chap and the waterbaby, i cant stand the baby powder smell.. weird i no 
.. but everything was easier when i was a kid so i love to smell it everyone in a while
I love the smell of my dog's paws ... they smell just like Fritos!!
I love the smell of suntan lotion ... takes me right back to beach trips when I was young.
The smell of crayons also takes me back to when I was young.
I agree that the sense of smell is strongly associated with memory.
Shalimar perfume reminds me of my mom and when I was a littel girl - she use to wear it everytime she and my dad were going out on a 'date'.
My mom wore Shalimar perfume when I was young, too!! Everytime I smell it, I feel like I'm hugging her.
While baking my cake yesterday, the smell took me back to my uncle's bakery, and visiting PA while we lived in NYC. It was heavenly. I love the smell of a freshly baked chocolate cake.
The smell I miss most is Avon's Lily of the Valley cologne. It was all my mother wore, as it was the flower of her birth month. If someone sees it in the catalogs this Christmas, send me a PM, so I can run to the Avon store here in town to order some.
The smell I don't miss most is the diesel smell that used to emanate from large trucks on the highway, back in the days before lead-free gasoline and emissions controls.
Theresa
PEACHES!
I love fresh ripe peaches. Reminds me of making homemade peach icecream on Sundays at my Aunts house in SC.
We would sit out under the big walnut tree and hand crank the ice cream maker. We all had to take turns since you would get tired easy.
I remember I hated to do it because Fred would always chase me across the yard and into the cotton fields. (Fred was a rooster BIG ROOSTER).
I have few memories due to so much trama in my childhood but that is definitly one I cherish. I loved going there on Sundays.
After my mom passed away and I had to clean out her house, I could smell her in every thing I packed and it would tear me apart. I kept some of her clothes and when I open that drawer, I think of her. Even her paperwork had "that smell."
When I smell Thanksgiving Dinner cooking, I always think of my mom also. That good old sage dressing baking and the smell of pumpkin pie........yummmm! Every cake I bake and every batch of buttercream I make reminds me of a favorite aunt that did cakes in California when I was young. I can remember watching her make those roses with such ease and wish I had her talent. She would try to teach me but I wanted to eat the icing more than learn the technique. Wish I had paid more attention. 
She's 90 now and likes to talk about all the cakes she did. One time when I went to visit for a week, she made 52 graduation cakes. This was at home after putting in her shift everyday in the kitchen at the hospital. She also had a wedding cake in the midst of all those.
Now you have me feeling mighty sentimental. Think I'll call my aunt.
Diane 
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