What smells do you associate with a nursery/your baby headspace? (2025)

ABChick said:

Sudocrem.

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Still a staple here in Ireland!

Any of the J&J scented products work for me, of course the baby powder tops the list. But my favourite smell is more of a cumulative aroma that combines natural body scent with these products.

There’s also something about the smell that lingers following a bottle of warm milk and of course my teddy has his own aroma hahaha, ( does need a bath occasionally)

indicator7 said:

Have recently been thinking about compiling a collection of babyish scents to get me deeper into the headspace. What smells or scented items do you associate with being a baby, aside from baby powder or wipes? Would also love perfume/candle/fragrance oil recommendations.

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I’ve saw a hack on TikTok for making your own air freshener using Dreft scent beads and tried it and let me tell you it smells absolutely amazing!!! All you have to do is take an empty spray bottle, add a cap full of the Dreft scent beads, fill with water, then shake the bottle and let it sit for about 30 minutes and that it!! I was using the spray that I posted below that I got off Amazon prior, but the Dreft just hits all the feels just right!

indicator7 said:

Have recently been thinking about compiling a collection of babyish scents to get me deeper into the headspace. What smells or scented items do you associate with being a baby, aside from baby powder or wipes? Would also love perfume/candle/fragrance oil recommendations.

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The smell of Desitin puts me immediately in the nursery mode. Can’t beat it to prevent diaper rash.

Baby powder, baby shampoo, lavender lotion, Pampers scent, the smell of new clothes or shoes, the smell of crayons and construction paper, Dreft laundry scents.

And used to be the smell of new electronics and toys like Nintendo when they were shipped in giant styrofoam blocks. That was always intoxicating for me. The flimsy recycled cardboard clamshells now just don't do it.

Feel like a piece of my childhood is lost every time I open a new game console and it's just that damp smelling cardboard pulp tray and no intoxicating styrofoam. The smell of new game instructions, if there even are any now, used to be similar.

littlemoosey said:

Johnson's "ORIGINAL" all the way. The new Johnson's has little to no scent at all. I don't understand why they can not scent it like the original?

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Omg so sad. The new stuff is so disappointing. The OG scent has such powerful associations for me. I have an OG bottle with a small amount in it that I just can’t part with.

1. J&J smells for sure.

2. The smell of my wet overnight diapers as soon as I wake up. That mixture of hours old pee pee, baby oil and baby powder that catches my nose occasionally as I adjust my blankets.

3. If it wasn't a firm no from my very accommodating wife, I would 100% love to have a diaper pail in our room. The smell of 3 days worth of wet diapers bursting out as you pop the lid of your diaper pail is intoxicating.