re: Do certain smells bring you back to a time or place...? Give some examples..

Popcorn and Brut (not that I ever get that exact combination anymore) ... high school boyfriend and the drive-in movie.

Creosote on a telephone pole ... Liberty, Texas when I was a kid at my grandmother's house.

Pipe tobacco reminds me of my grandfather.

Sweet olive trees remind me of college... tons of them around HPL Fieldhouse.

Skin-so-Soft brings me back to Hopedale, LA 1994 when I caught my first hardhead.

Middleton Library. Smells the same as when I was a student in the '80s.

After a lawn has been rained on during the heat of a Summer day the smell of it reminds me of my Summer two-a-days for High School Football. The entire coaching staff is now dead as of last month.

The smell of cheap cigars brings me back to Night Games at Tulane Stadium. "Cold Beer Here!"

There's a scent used in institutional cleaners that reminds me of the school I went to for my Second and Third Grade years. The smell made by using color pencils reminds me of SRA test record-keeping also in that school.

Growing up in New Roads near a cotton seed mill. The smell on a crisp fall morning was amazing.

Similar to what I remember. The brief smell of a cigarette being lit with a zippo lighter. The blend of cool tobacco smoke and lighter fluid.

Brings back early memories of my dad. (he quit smoking about 35 years before he died). That smell also reminds me of after a junior high basketball tournament. Our school principle was driving me home and he lit a cigarette. That smell.

The smell of original Polo cologne brings me back to my poon slaying days of the early '80's

Sucks getting old

While as a food critic in Paris, I came across a most peculiar chef--he was a mouse!

But that dish he made for me took me back to my rustic roots and the smell of my mother in the kitchen with fresh vegetables. I'll never forget that dish of Ratatouille.