RAF AKROTIRI OM Front Door Scent
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Hello,
please could some member of this broad Kirk who has horticultural knowledge enlighten me on what is the shrub called that for years produced THEEEEE most glorious aroma just outside the OM front door? It always filled me with joy on my way in to me filling myself with Brandy Sours and the way out to a kebab at Chris’s!
TIA.
please could some member of this broad Kirk who has horticultural knowledge enlighten me on what is the shrub called that for years produced THEEEEE most glorious aroma just outside the OM front door? It always filled me with joy on my way in to me filling myself with Brandy Sours and the way out to a kebab at Chris’s!
TIA.
Heady memories indeed. Funny how smells can be so evocative isn’t it?
I believe it was the Jasmine that created that heady smell, it’s known for being stronger after sunset (according to Mrs 2planks senior who is a bit of a whizz with matters horticultural).
I believe it was the Jasmine that created that heady smell, it’s known for being stronger after sunset (according to Mrs 2planks senior who is a bit of a whizz with matters horticultural).
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Not what you were asking to be sure, but we have a Sweet Olive Tree in the back garden and it'll just grab you when you walk past it. It's a beautiful smell that appears to come out of nowhere and forces you to turn around and get a good whiff
1st April 1961, stepping off RAF Britannia, RAF Nicosia [having flown seated backwards from UK] at 0600. I can smell the scene, mostly pine and cedar and a whiff of fuel. I can really smell it. Remarkable.
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I believe it was jasmine too. Summer of 1990 and we were one of the first, if not the first VC10 route activation crews for Op Granby. Spent the night on makeshift bedding in the Officers' Mess after a Chris kebab and an evening on the Ladies' Room patio planning the day ahead. The scent of jasmine from the shrubs all around the patio was overwhelming and something remembered now for more than 30 years. On a subsequent very long tour at Episkopi, we moved to a village up country and planted and tended jasmine in the front garden. Oh, and geraniums, mostly cuttings sourced from the prolific plants at the entrance to the Akrotiri Mess.
1st April 1961, stepping off RAF Britannia, RAF Nicosia [having flown seated backwards from UK] at 0600. I can smell the scene, mostly pine and cedar and a whiff of fuel. I can really smell it. Remarkable.
My son-in-law is very allergic to guinea pigs: sneezing, eye waters, cough, face rash.
About 10 years ago the D Tel. published a group of a massive litter of offspring, all ligned up and looking "cute".
Poor s-i-l saw the photo and was straight into full on symptoms, as severe as ever in the flesh.
The brain/nose connection is strange.
My son-in-law is very allergic to guinea pigs: sneezing, eye waters, cough, face rash.
About 10 years ago the D Tel. published a group of a massive litter of offspring, all ligned up and looking "cute".
Poor s-i-l saw the photo and was straight into full on symptoms, as severe as ever in the flesh.
My son-in-law is very allergic to guinea pigs: sneezing, eye waters, cough, face rash.
About 10 years ago the D Tel. published a group of a massive litter of offspring, all ligned up and looking "cute".
Poor s-i-l saw the photo and was straight into full on symptoms, as severe as ever in the flesh.
I just remember a scent of stale Coccinelle.
As a 12 year old kid I flew to Kenya with my family on an Airwork Viscount. Many stops (Rome, Benghazi, Wadi Halfa, Khartoum and Entebbe) included the fore-mentioned Benghazi in Libya. When the door was opened there the hot smell of the desert was so strong as to remain in my memory to this day. Then in later years on the Brit in the RAF, we went to Changi and later Tengah, both of which had the same most memorable smell of Singapore when the door was opened. Years later going to the 757 simulator at Payar Lebar, the smell at Changi Airport had gone and the Singapore River near Collyers Quay in town had changed from dirty oily black to crystal clear blue. Progress.
Scent.
06 Jan 1965. The first "native" scent at Paya Lebar after deplaning from the British Eagle Brit. was of frangipani/plumeria. The scent stayed with me over the years, About 5 years ago, here inSpain, found one, and it is now full height and in full flower. Magnificent, and the scent is fantastic, pride of place in the garden. Many offspring around the urbanisation. (The tree, not me .... !)
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