top 10 favorite childhood scents/odors

[datasuspect]

1. diesel exhaust

2. burning

3. formaldehyde outgassing

4. CFCs

5. model airplane glue

6. the smell of tar when the el tracks baked in the sun during summer

7. naphtha

8. cigarettes

9. the smell from argo-summit/stickney when the wind came from the southwest

10. cigars

[HopeHoops]

1. popcorn

wait, that still is.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. ok

charcoal burning

clothes drying on the line

gas

freshly mown grass

my mother

my father

Grandma's house

my baby brother

my kitty cat

rain

I forgot a couple...

carbon copy tests and Paste.

[Symarip]

3. Beer nt

[NJmaverick]

4. How about the smell of a bug being burnt by a magnifying glass?

[datasuspect]

5. or the smell of blood

[surrealAmerican]

6. Are you from Chicago?

... or do all cities with el trains use copious quantities of tar?

[datasuspect]

9. yes

i dunno, isn't NYC the only other place with an actual elevated?

[Z_I_Peevey]

7. Good topic!

1. Gasoline
2. Coffee with milk and sugar
3. Cow pasture, summer evening
4. A particular shrub between the landlord's house and the next property, Oklahoma City, 1963
5. Any musty, dank basement-like space
6. Grandpa's sweat
7. Grapette soda with peanuts in it
8. The laundromat
9. Bacon
10. Oranges

[datasuspect]

8. oooh!

i left out musty.

in our old neighborhood, they had "vaulted sidewalks." these came about because they raised the grade of chicago city streets at one time.

anyway, they were dark, dank earthen vaults under the sidewalk.

you could cool off inside one during the summer.

[rug]

10. Farts never fail to amuse.

[MGKrebs]

11. Napalm. Especially in the morning.

I forget the other nine.

[Captain Hilts]

12. 1) Diesel oil of dad's submarine 2) mom's perfume 3) leaves burning

4) freshly mimeographed purple paper 5)play dough 6) My pillow, Petes 7) spaghetti sauce

[arbusto_baboso]

13. Clown vomit.

Don't ask. }( :puke:

[Lars39]

14. hmm

Cherry pipe tobacco
Lavender
Black gumdrops
Oatmeal cookies
Country ham and biscuits
Grease
Vinyl seats
Right after it rains
Cedar trees
Pine trees

[Joey Liberal]

15. Brownies nt