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“Childhood smells of perfume and brownies.”

Childhood Smell Perfume Brownies

Book:The Stories of David Leavitt

Source: The Stories of David Leavitt

“There are moments when I can wander through my childhood's landscape, through rooms long ago, remember how they were furnished, where the pictures hung on the walls, the way the light fell. It's like a film - little scraps of a film, which I set running and which I can reconstruct to the last detail - except their smell.”

Way Littles Long I Can Moments Light Running Lasts Remember Film Rooms Childhood Wall Details Smell Wander Landscape Long Ago Hung Scrap

Book:Film & dreams: an approach to Bergman

Source: Film & dreams: an approach to Bergman

“Most importantly, what you get from a greasy spoon is a certain kind of smell that has been almost legislated out of existence. It is cigaretty, certainly, and it also has the catch-throat quality of smoking fat. It is a warm, companionable fug that rises to meet you as you step through the door on a late autumn day and it is how public places used to smell in my childhood in the 1970s. It is real, it is human, and it beats anything I know.”

Knows Humans Kind Has Beens Real Used Certain Existence Quality Steps Doors Childhood Food Late Beats Cooking Warm Smell Fats Smoking Autumn Culinary Throat Spoons Autumn Days

Author:Kathryn Hughes

“Smell can conjure up memories for me stronger than any other sense. Especially childhood memories. Perhaps because you were that much shorter and therefore closer to the ground and its smells.”

Memories Childhood Stronger Smell Childhood Memories

Book:Change lobsters, and dance: an autobiography

Source: Change lobsters, and dance: an autobiography

“One of the great things about music is that it has the capability of time travel - you smell a certain smell in the room and it takes you back to your childhood. I feel like music is able to do that, and it happens to me all the time.”

Feels Happens Able Certain Rooms Childhood Music Is Smell Great Things Your Children Capability Time Travel

Author:M. Ward

“Sisters share the scent and smells... the feel of a common childhood.”

“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains...”

Nature Memories Childhood Mountain Summer Smell Memorable Unexpected Lakes Scent Fleeting June Our Memories Momentary Childhood Memories Sweet Potatoes

Author:Diane Ackerman

“My grannies would both bake things like shortbreads and cookies. I think whenever I smell those kinds of things it really takes me back to my childhood.”

Thinking Kind Childhood Smell Take Me Cookies Granny Take Me Back

Author:Curtis Stone

“I think back to when I was growing up in Fort Worth, Texas, in the 1950s, during the [John] McCarthy era, with two parents who founded a Unitarian Church. We lived in a little frame house, and my bedroom was just down the hall from the kitchen. My favorite memories of childhood are of the smell of coffee wafting into my bedroom as my parents and their friends talked about the big, important things - about racism and about how to move our country to live its values.”

“The local shepherd, I vividly remember his old Barbour jacket, with a hipflask in the pocket. It just feels very familiar - like part of my childhood. The smell of the wax. Whenever I put one on now, it just feels comforting.”

Feels Remember Childhood Smell Locals Familiar Pockets Comforting Jackets Shepherds

Author:Sam Heughan

“Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.”

Children Reason Grows Sound Hours Dark Childhood Sight Smell Childhood Memories Dark Hours

Author:John Betjeman

“The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood [p. 53]”

Childhood Smell

Author:Richard Paul Evans

“summer, after all, is a time when wonderful things can happen to quiet people. for those few months, you’re not required to be who everyone thinks you are, and that cut-grass smell in the air and the chance to dive into the deep end of a pool give you a courage you don’t have the rest of the year. you can be grateful and easy, with no eyes on you, and no past. summer just opens the door and lets you out.”

“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains; another, a moonlit beach; a third, a family dinner of pot roast and sweet potatoes during a myrtle-mad August in a Midwestern town. Smells detonate softly in our memory like poignant land mines hidden under the weedy mass of years. Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth.”