Which Scent

[gray_marian]

Which scent returns you to your seafaring days or childhood?

One of mine is boxed firelighters, my mum had to hide them

[cappy]

joining a ship to go foriegn and smelling the oil that she has or is being bunkered with

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also the smell of a woman or her hair ...after a few weeks at sea

[John Gill]

Heaven Scent and perhaps the fragrance of a white fiver amongst my pay off.

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joining a ship to go foriegn and smelling the oil that she has or is being bunkered with

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also the smell of a woman or her hair ...after a few weeks at sea

Think she might be a bit salty after three weeks Cappy- oh well, each to their own.

[Richard Quartermaine]

Kerosene, the fuel for our lamps in the 1930s, warm motor vapours on older cargo ships and baking coconut from the Suva, Fiji Pacific Biscuit and Union Soap Companies (The former used to make the old time ship's biscuits named Cabin Crackers that were thick, tasteless and hard as a rock. and yes, they were provisions for mainly the islands trading vessels) that permeated the whole town.
Richard

[Louis the fly]

Many of the ports we visited you could smell the land long before seeing it. Vegetation, wood smoke and tobacco carried by the wind.
My first trip to sea was to South America, all the bar girls shouting bambino bambino you cherry boy. They all reeked of garlic, a smell I have always hated.
The strange thing is after a few beers the girls looked very beautiful and the garlic smell had disappeared.

[Ivan Cloherty]

They all reeked of garlic, a smell I have always hated.
The strange thing is after a few beers the girls looked very beautiful and the garlic smell had disappeared.

Sounds very very familiar Louis, at 16 I looked about 12 and lost so many cherries I could have opened a market stall, I was also a late developer at breast feeding!

[judith george]

coming home from school to the smell of Dad cooking cawl (soup)

judith

[Keith at Tregenna]

coming home from school to the smell of Dad cooking cawl (soup)

judith

Cystal yfed o’r cawl â bwyta’s cig. “It is as good to drink the broth as to eat the meat”
– from a collection of proverbs attributed to Cattwg Ddoeth (Cattwg the Wise). k

[Keith Moody]

from my childhood it is the smoke, fire and dust from the shelling.
for an adult it was the smell of food cooking in the galley and knowing that i would be able to eat another meal again soon or a piece of fruit or a piece of cheese without having to fight for it.
keith moody
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[Louis the fly]

Marian am I to gather from your post that you began your career as an arsonist very early in life ?