My wonderful husband is treating me to minted lamb chops for dinner whilst I lie on the sofa waiting to be served. The smell of the chops is gorrrrgeous!! I'm going to start dribbling if he doesnt dish it up pretty smart!

It got me thinking about smells i miss from England. The first one I thought of was the lovely smell of wet cut grass. Lets face it you dont see much grass in many parts of Aus let alone wet stuff!

Then I thought of tarmac when the road layers are putting a new surface down. For some reason the one and only time I have walked past it here, I didnt really smell of anything much and certainly not like the UK stuff.

What smell do you miss?

The first thing I thought of was freshly cut grass. The second was the gorgeous aroma of Blackberries and Bramley apples being cooked in my parents kitchen when we were kids, knowing that a lovely tasty pie was going to be for dessert.

Damn..that pie would finish off my dinner a treat.

You reminded me of my mum stewing apples from the garden

OOOOOooooh what a good idea for a thread

When my in-laws were here in September we went to a local garden centre. Amongst the bush type plants was a lone pink lical bush, with one solitary flower on it. I sniffed it.....and promptly burst into tears!!! I used to have a lovely heavily scented one in my back garden and even though they didn't last long in a vase, I would cut some and have them on my kitchen table.

Oh, also the smell of cut grass and damp soggy leaves in a wood. Mmmmm bliss

I will echo Tracey and say lilac and add freesias. You can get freesias here and they smell lovely and they do remind me of home. If I ever go into Crabtree and Evelyn the smell reminds me of my Grans house.

Funny how a smell can evoke memories isn't it.

Fresh mown hay and the "country" smell (manure).

Violets and mothballs remind me of my grandmother (deceased).

I can't tell you what it is, but I think the air in the UK smells completely different from in the US. Maybe just where I am in Texas . . . What do you think?

My wife thinks I am odd but I love the small of manure. I think because the only time I smelled i growing up was the once yearly, one week holiday to Rhyll when I was a kid. I guess I associate it with those wonderful times.

The other smell I miss is that of the chippy. A bit lame but that is a world beating scent for me.

Oh, another smell I miss is bonfires. Maybe they don't have them any more over there either, but they were definitely part of my life growing up and very nostalgic.

Today it was the smell of a thick carpet of golden damp leaves in the woods, I took my dogs for a walk and they just go mad in the carpet of leaves and the musty smell from the oak leaves is always so nice.

You beat me to it. In NC and TN, the "country smell" consisted of chicken and pig farms what an unholy stink!

On a side note, it's funny how everyone in the village here is expected to pick up after their dogs (I do, by the way), but there are huge piles of horse dung EVERYWHERE! (there's a riding stable and they lead the horses through the village to the riding paddock every day, leaving trails of the steaming stuff behind them).

The smell of those big, white lilies. I used to buy some in Tesco every week and the house would be full of the smell.
I can sometimes get them here but they cost a fortune.

There was a launderette I used to pass on my way home, and on a cold, drizzly November evening the curious mixture of warmth and washing powder was a smell I loved.
There's something about the smell of an English woodland, no matter what the season; it's rich and earthy......just like none of the men I know!

Definitely fresh cut grass. Especially when the big mowers at school had just cut the grass. Smelled delicious as we lay down in the grass afterwards.

Also, I remember many walks in the woods. Such great smells, added to that rustling leaves, squirrels, birds etc - it was like a little wonderland when you are younger.

From my childhood I remember the strong waft from the kitchen of strawberries, raspberries etc being turned into jam. My mother used to make many, many pots of jam, and that sugary mixture smelled outstanding. Although, I have never liked the taste of jam, the sugary sweet smell always smelled so good

I mean lilac!!!!!!!!!!!

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