That Smell?
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The odour of Irish Spring hand soap.
A baby just washed & powdered.
Hot Tar (roofer's)
Freshly Paved Asphalt
The whiff of ground coffee when you just open the can.
The smell right after a rain.
The Smell of Hai Karate Cologne & knowing that pretty soon, every woman within 3 miles of it, will be after you
A baby just washed & powdered.
Hot Tar (roofer's)
Freshly Paved Asphalt
The whiff of ground coffee when you just open the can.
The smell right after a rain.
The Smell of Hai Karate Cologne & knowing that pretty soon, every woman within 3 miles of it, will be after you
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One of the most poinant memories I have gets triggered by the smell of oil on dirt. My Uncle Jerry had a garage and when I was a little ankle biter I would spend my days with him in the garage and roaming the junk yard, "driving" all the old cars. Back then they spread the old oil on the dirt lot to keep down the dust. Brings back great memories of a day long gone by.
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From: Columbus, Ohio
Hey I've got a smell! Two, actually....
1) The smell of the old-style Leaded gasoline. It had a different smell, both going in the tank at the pump, and coming out the exhaust. No, I didn't huff the stuff, just liked the smell. It's different than today's unleaded.
2) This has two memories attached: The smell of fresh driveway sealer. The earlier memory is being in Kindergarten and drinking Tang that my teacher made. Afterwards, we went on walks thru the neighborhood and people had just sealed their driveways.
The second part is of spending time with my Grandpa Walp in Springfield, Oh. I drove out alone to hang out with him, he was 93 and had a kool tattoo he got during WWI on his arm! We'd walk out to the park and talk, and again it would be fall or spring when the sealer was applied, and it would lightly waft through the air.
Now I'm 35, and that light smell in the kool of the autumn makes me feel 5, or 25, again. Wow.
1) The smell of the old-style Leaded gasoline. It had a different smell, both going in the tank at the pump, and coming out the exhaust. No, I didn't huff the stuff, just liked the smell. It's different than today's unleaded.
2) This has two memories attached: The smell of fresh driveway sealer. The earlier memory is being in Kindergarten and drinking Tang that my teacher made. Afterwards, we went on walks thru the neighborhood and people had just sealed their driveways.
The second part is of spending time with my Grandpa Walp in Springfield, Oh. I drove out alone to hang out with him, he was 93 and had a kool tattoo he got during WWI on his arm! We'd walk out to the park and talk, and again it would be fall or spring when the sealer was applied, and it would lightly waft through the air.
Now I'm 35, and that light smell in the kool of the autumn makes me feel 5, or 25, again. Wow.
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From: Eastern Taxachusetts
my favorite would have to be cow manure and bleach. That meant that the milking was done, the barn was clean, and it was dinner time. Which brings me to my second favorite: Pork roast with saurkraut and potato dumplings.
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New car smell (nobody's ever got that right in a can), the smell of morning in the Mojave desert after a rain as the temperature starts to rise, JP-4/8-burning jet engine exhaust, Hoppe's #9, and the smell (and sound) of the first round of the day, sharp and clean, shattering the silence and echoing off into the distance, followed by a faint "whack" of impact.
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From: Long island NY
2 stroke exhaust
my truck's exhaust
gasoline
night before it snows smell
paved road smell
new car smell
and the smell of brownies cooking
my truck's exhaust
gasoline
night before it snows smell
paved road smell
new car smell
and the smell of brownies cooking
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From: Winnipeg, Manitoba
The smell right after a rain storm..so fresh and clean...next would be the smell of fresh baked bread, or a good beef roast in the slow cooker after a few hours.
I also like the smell of diesel burning, the scent of two stroke exhaust after a hard day of snowmobiling, and the smell of a good camp fire.
I also like the smell of diesel burning, the scent of two stroke exhaust after a hard day of snowmobiling, and the smell of a good camp fire.
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From: Holland, MI
My parents old 26' Steel Clipper cabin cruiser on early Saturday mornings getting her ready for a weekend on Lake Michigan. A mixture of river water, canvas, vinyl, freshly oiled teak wood, and the trusty old Chrysler Crusader power plant.
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From: Palmyra
The smell of black walnuts when you are taking the husks off them. Your hands would stain for weeks too, and nothing would take it off--it had to wear off. I hate the smell of a hospital, it gives me the heeby-jeebies.
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From: Auburn, OH
Smells that bring me back to good things.
-Rich two cycle, grandpa had an old boat that always ran a bit rich.
-Propane exhaust, my friends dad used to have a tractor that ran on it and we would use it for a lot of projects growing up. and just before we turned 16 we would use it all the time to tow his old 65 F100 out of the barn and down to the garage to work on in then tow it back up to put it away. That 65 was his first truck which we fixed just in time for him to turn 16.
-The cold air you get first thing in the morning after the first few frosts. You don't smell this in the city so when I do smell it I remember being back out in the country and can't wait to finish school so I can get out of town.
Bad smell
stale beer and ciggarets - just turns your stomach when you wake up and have to go to work when you room mates have been drinking all night.
-Rich two cycle, grandpa had an old boat that always ran a bit rich.
-Propane exhaust, my friends dad used to have a tractor that ran on it and we would use it for a lot of projects growing up. and just before we turned 16 we would use it all the time to tow his old 65 F100 out of the barn and down to the garage to work on in then tow it back up to put it away. That 65 was his first truck which we fixed just in time for him to turn 16.
-The cold air you get first thing in the morning after the first few frosts. You don't smell this in the city so when I do smell it I remember being back out in the country and can't wait to finish school so I can get out of town.
Bad smell
stale beer and ciggarets - just turns your stomach when you wake up and have to go to work when you room mates have been drinking all night.
