March 18, 2019
If your childhood had a smell, what would it be?
When I first read the question, I knew i wouldn’t be able to narrow my answer down to just one smell. So you get two. I suppose that’s cheating, but oh well.
We lived out in the country, and smells were abundant. Everything from the fragile scent of whatever flower was in bloom to the lingering smells of the cow pasture next door. Some you became accustomed to, others you learned to ignore. “nose-blind” is the current terminology.
But some things I never got tired of smelling. With spring came the blooming of the lilacs. There was a row of them behind the house and another group up in the back yard near the apple tree. Although my mother cut large bouquets for the house and to share with family and friends, there were plenty left on the bushes. When I played outside, I always stopped to take a whiff. I still love lilacs.
And the second smell from my childhood was the mock orange. There were two bushes on the property; one near the dining room window that only produced sparse blooms, and the other,larger bush near the end of the driveway. The flowers didn’t last long when they were cut and were best enjoyed while still on the bush. The delicate sweet scent reminded me of oranges. (Hence the name, but mock orange is not related to real orange bushes, scientifically speaking.)
Image by Hans Braxmeier from Pixabay
I could have included the smell of a campfire or the scent of pine trees after a warm summer rain. Or when my mother made gingerbread cookies. or …well, I guess I should stop now.
What did you childhood smell like? I’m looking forward to seeing what our other authors remember.
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March 18, 2019
If your childhood had a smell, what would it be?
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Oh, LILACS! They bloom in July here, after the other trees have done their thing and I LOVE the scent! Unfortunately, like everything else here, they are only around for a short while, but lilacs bloom for a few weeks instead of days like crabapple and choke cherry.
What's fun is I can "extend" the lilac season here by traveling to a higher elevation- the higher I go, the later the lilacs bloom.