Posted on 08/16/2017 5:05:41 PM PDT by vannrox
I can remember reading in Stephen King’s “Christine” (the book being so much better than the okay movie based on it) the part early on when Dennis goes into Christine, while Arnie and Roland were taking care of the sale/purchase of the old car, and sits in the driver’s seat and describes the age old smell of the 1958 Plymouth Fury that met him as soon as he opened the door and made his way in. One of the more powerful parts of the book even at that point in terms of visualization and imagery.
On the lighter side; cinnamon and licorice.
Hoppes #9 gun solvent.
I have never liked tobacco but my late Uncle smoked a pipe. It always had a pleasant aroma. He was also a great story teller.
He lived to a hundred and one.
According to Ian Fleming, James Bond liked the smell of cordite.
Of those things listed, the one which I identify with most is a leather baseball glove. My first one was a Warren Spahn.
My late wife liked Aramis and bought it for me. My Mother liked Old Spice.
I really need to read the whole thread first.
Can we put this stuff in chit chat? The country is on the brink...I don’t see these things as quite as important.
Burning cordite
The worm pit
Coiled wet climbing rope
A field dressed deer
Chain saw oil
Any campfire
Flux and solder
Bondo
A good scotch
A good bourbon
“Hoppe’s #9”
Mmm Mmmm Mmmm....says this gal!
Why is this under News/Activism?
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Fresh sawdust. The smell of wood as you drill and saw through it.
Ditto that.....
Amen, bruddah.
I can remember reading in Peter Golenbock’s book “Bums” (about the Brooklyn Dodgers) concerning people he interviewed that one of the chief things that they remembered of the funny old ballpark (Ebbets Field in Brooklyn) was the distinctive, rich smell of baseball about the place back in the 1930s and 1940s.
Does anyone here remember that sort of thing about the older ballparks (Wrigley, Old Comiskey Park, Tiger Stadium, Yankee Stadium before renovations in 1974, Fenway, Crosley, Forbes, etc)? Or about the older NHL rinks like Chicago Stadium, Boston Garden, Detroit Olympia?
#1. A 10 day backcountry backpacking trip with no shower.
Yeah, the old-school type - Outers or Hoppes, or one of the department-store variants. Not the newfangled stuff.
Also - add one of the most manly scents ever... freshly-spent shotgun shells, still wafting smoke. The old paper hull type have a touch of "Roman candle" smell, but it's far richer and less sulfuric. Better than the plastic hull shells by far.
He needs to work on his manliness coefficient. 318cc -- LOL. Eight thimble-size pistons isn't going to impress many.
Sawdust in the wood shop.
Fresh turned earth on a construction site.
I always liked the smell of an underground mine. Wet rock, timbers, machinery, some lingering traces of the last blast...nothing quite like it.
Cherry Tobacco....so sweet...memories of dad!!
Killjoy.
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