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a hot 2 stroke yamaha Alcohol engine, mixed with sand and the smell of stale beer.

Dry, dusty ground after light, speckling sprinkle.

Hoppe's No. 9...
I drank a 4oz bottle when I was 4 years old (60 years ago).
My parents tell me it caused quite a fuss at the time. Had to get the 'ol stomach pumped.
I still like the smell, although my tastes for liquid refreshment has changed some over the years.....

Used to have a cartoon that showed two young women talking in the foreground while beyond 'em two guys were looking at guns.

"Getting Rod to propose was easy. Instead of Chanel Number Five, I wore Hoppe's Number Nine."

My wonderful grandmother. She cared for five of us - three cousins, my brother & me. In the late 1940's and early 1950's. A kind, soft, pleasant woman always in an old lady print dress, heavy black shoes, with nylons rolled half-way up her legs. Smelled of a combination of the most recent meal she cooked, always fresh garlic, a hint of red wine, and an indescribable old woman scent.
I�ve been in public a few times and caught that smell. In a nanosecond, it made me 5 years old again with great memories.

Hoppes No.9
Pawpaw's basement
The mountains of Virginia and West Virginia around Tazwell and Mercer counties.

Ernie

Every time I go to see Mom (86 now)I walk in the house and remember
years gone by.
Something todays kids will never remember, the smell of cigar smoke at a baseball game coming from the old men behind us, any cigar smoke now reminds me of the ball games that dad and I went to when I was very young, I can almost taste the peanuts.

Wood fire in the den
First puff of a diesel tractor
Aqua Velva
Old Spice, original - tried it when I was about 12 'cause I wanted to be cool like my Uncle, felt like gasoline....

Good memories:

Hoppe's #9

Fresh made pork sausage frying on the wood cook stove. Right along with fresh bake Sicilian Twist bread.

Freshly fired paper shotgun shells.

Real BP smoke.

The small barn on the farm on a cold winter day when I went down to milk.

Not so good;

Hot G.I. canvass.

Hot aluminum & hot gun barrels.

JP & turbine exhaust.

Anybody mention the smell of a paper .410 shell that had just gone off on a crisp November morning??

Sweet fern. Just introduced my wife and kids to this wonderful smell recently.
Cedar forest in the fall.
A forest floor layered with freshly fallen poplar leaves.
Patchouli; some special memories of some memorable years spent with a certain someone.

FYI guys, Rio is making paper hulled shotshells in reduced pressure loads. I don't know if they smell the same, but they're cheap enough to gamble a few bucks to find out.

Several have mentioned the smell of Hoppe's #9. How many of you older posters (as I am) remember the smell of the old, orginal Hoppe's #9? The smell has changed slightly through the years, probably due to some rediculous EPA rules that caused them to make it 'safer' to use.

I worked for a large sporting goods retailer for several years and we bought many used guns and did quite a bit of gun trading. Anyway, one day a couple in their 30's brought in some guns to sell that had belonged to an old relative. They also had a box along that had some ammo in it along with some cleaning supplies. We bought the guns. Later that night I was looking in the box of goodies and found a bottle of Hoppe's#9. I opened and WOW...the OLD stuff. I called another employee about my age over and asked him to smell the Hoppe's. He got a big grin on his face after taking a good wiff and replied, "That's the good, old stuff." The younger employees thought we were crazy until we opened a new bottle and had them compare the smell. They agreed that their was a definite difference in the smell and most preferred the smell of the 'good, old stuff'. The younger generation today will never know some of the good smells from the past.

burned nitro in a paper shotshell case
a trick or treat bag
mink being skinned
apples in my grandpas cellar
the sage sippin air of opening grouse in NE Montana
log wood crystals boiling
-40
an old musty log cabin
My sweetie's perfume
moldering leaves
smoking fish
cotton candy
life

The smell of Balkan Sobraine in the white tin, fresh and while smoked. Or even any other latakia mixture.

Farm Kitchen in the morning,Eggs,Bacon and Coffee on the Stove. Chickens,cows and horses outside,the culvert out front!

mink oil leather preservative

Definitely my dad's Sears canvas tent. We recently went camping, and my dad brought the old tent to use for storage;took me right back to the late 60's early 70's as soon as I walked in it. It was the smell that did it.

Occasionally I'll get a whiff of some women's perfume; bad memories come a calling.

The smell of burning coal, the smell of a burning gob pile (slate dump), the fall woods, and the smell of turbine engine exhaust.

Linseed oil
The smell of Def over white cotton fields

Me too.