What smell sends your mind right back to childhood?

Certain disinfectants. The smell reminds me of school.
That and cabbage. Every school hade the aroma of cabbage.

Lavender and Lilley of the valley.
A lot of the older generation when I was very young used to wear these scents.

Petrol. My Dad owned a van and us kids would sit in the back. There seemed a constant smell of it.

Paraffin. Back in the days before we had central heating we had Paraffin fires all over the house during the winter.
Same with coal or coke open fires.
Lost count of the times the wind would howl down the chimney and fill the place with the smell of soot.

The smell of freshly made tortillas

Lavender and burning wood

The smell of burning wood in the fireplace, and the smell of the unisex perfume CK one.☺

Carnations that grew in our yard and homemade bread.

Cherry pipe tobacco - reminds me of my grandfather.

Bleach.

Hoppes® No. 9 gun oil

Jergens Cherry almond

The fireplace

Hay mowed in the fall

Fresh tomatoes on the vine

Crayons

My mother’s perfume: Woodhue. And onions cooking. My grandmother’s advice to her five daughters was, “If you’re not sure what to make for dinner, fry some onions while you make up your mind. No one will even notice if you don’t serve them, but it smells like something good is happening.”

Vanilla extract.

Pinesol

Strawberries

Cut grass lol

The smell of the ocean. Reminds me of standing in line to go back into class. They always made us line up, and our school was near the Bay; you could hear the foghorn some days and smell the water.

Bread baking

freshly cut grass

Beef stew slow cooking