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Jeff's thread on sounds has me thinking on smells. Two cycle outboard exhaust, shotgun shells still smoking ejected from a double barrel.

Bacon sizzling in the pan. Yours?

Hoppe's #9. I don't use it, but dad always did.

Standing by for Slum to say raunchy box...

My wife's perfume.

The smell of gun smoke and two stroke for sure. I’d also add the smell of the pines and fern after a rain.

Pine wood smoke on a crisp evening.

A favorite camping memory of mine is my dad waking up before dawn to go fishing. He would try being quiet, but always made a little noise while making coffee. The sound of a blue-tip match being struck, followed by the smell of the match is a memory burned into my mind. Then came the smell of coffee being made in a percolating pot atop the propane stove. To this day, the smells of a blue-tip match, percolating coffee and burning propane in a damp camper, take me back to the days of being a happy kid, enjoying life in a simple time.

Chit house door on a tuna boat.

Puppy breath.

Sourdough biscuits, eggs and sizzling bacon cooking in the old sheep wagon at elk camp. It just doesn't get any better than that.

Wet decaying leaves in a stand of hardwoods, late Fall.

Was it the smell of Mellorine eminating from my Grandads old chest style freezer when i was 3-5 years old and before they upgraded, or a combination of that mixed wit the smell of an open brick of Days Work or Brown Mule?

The smell of a pine forest. We lived in central and west Texas and every trip to east Texas i was in anticipation of that. Those exposed all the time never noticed.

Waking up and my grandparents house, with Granpa cooking breakfast. Can still smell it and its been a long time.

Dark fired tobacco barns wafting up through the hollows here.

AND....we’ve had this same thread before.


Because JamesJr will also agree with on the tobacco barns, as he replied the same on the previous thread

Poontang

Yeast infections can get s bit memorable....

My high school girlfriends hair.

Smoking hull of a WW 20 ga on a snow covered morning.

The sizing lube, beeswax stuff.....my dad had when he used to cast/ sell bullets.

Like G96 way better than Hoppes.

Mom used to smoke, Merit menthol and lit w a match.
That start up smelled good.

I absolutely detest the smell of gasoline, cat pizz or sauerkraut.

Go from fine to nuke china finger on the red button pizzed in a nanosecond

Grandpa was a Standard Oil (Amoco) bulk dealer for 30+yrs. He had a 25x50 steel building with a gravel floor. The dust in that building smells different than gravel dust out on a gravel road. I could be kidnapped and blindfolded and if I ever ended up in that building, I'd know exactly where I was just by the smell.

My dad bought a 1937 Chevy 2-door Coupe. While I was in Jr. High in the mid-80's we completed the 3rd restoration of the car. There is a smell when you get close or into the car. Unburned fuel in the exhaust system, throw in a little bit of 'Ode de Gear-Lube", and the faint smell of Grandpa's steel building gravel where the car sat for ~7-8yrs between restoration 2 and 3.

Field dressing/cleaning Sharptail or Ruffed grouse as well as the emanations of anyone involved for the next 2-3 days. #Grousefarts

Elk have a smell all their own, sort of a mix of "horse and juniper".

Pre-DPF diesel exhaust. Neighbor in the campground removed the DPF system on his pickup and I stopped by to ask him about it as I have the same truck/motor. HIs wife asked, "How did you know it's been worked on?" I told her, "I can smell it and hear it."

The smell of a mid-summer warm weather storm coming when the temp very quickly drops 10+ degrees and it "smells like rain" just before the rain starts

AA452 Winchester powder smoke.

Yep. Grandad knew how to fix bacon. Have that deep skillet filled half way with boiling hog lard and the whole pound of bacon swimming in it. It cooked every bit of the bacon strips. I think he had cut them in half and stirred them around. There were no under fried bits of fat.