The smells from the 60s and 70s we’ll never forget

A certain smell can take you right back to a particular moment in a second. Tonight let’s reminisce about the scents from our childhoods that are still so fresh in our minds. Which can you remember really fondly?

The smell of opening one of old foil Polaroid cartridges

Sweet and chemical, plus the instant gratification rush that comes with knowing you’re about to take some Polaroid pictures!

Tanning oil that smells like coconuts and summer

Taft hairspray

Hubba Bubba

A phone book in a hot phone booth

Leaded petrol

Stale cigarettes and the smell of the old pub

Felt markers

Old books 

Fresh wood shavings

Fish and chips in newspaper

Vicks VapoRub 

Moth balls

Chanel No. 5

L’Air du Temps

Arpege 

Old Spice

Lip Smackers

The smell of marijuana in the air

Ink on paper

The spirit duplicator was a cheap way to print a pop quiz, and even more popular with students, who couldn’t resist sniffing the sweetly toxic Ditto fluid smell.

Aramis

Library card catalogues

Homemade food by mum

The 1970s smelled like food which was homemade. There were always great smells coming from our kitchen like bread, pies and cakes

Smell of clean sheets line dried

Pot pourri

Scratch n sniff stickers

Chalk on dusters and the chalkboard

Perms

Old TVs and radios that were filled with tubes instead of transistors

The smell of real linoleum

Strawberry Shortcake

She had that sickly sweet strawberry smell!

Real Christmas trees