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Iceaxe
02-17-2013, 12:18 PM
Methanol

http://www.bogley.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=42683&d=1300729629

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What smell do you love?

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BruteForce
02-17-2013, 12:56 PM
JP4-JP8 jet fuel, especially at night just before an OP.

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oldno7
02-17-2013, 01:00 PM
A 2 stroke motor running on a cold morning.

A little 110 only makes it better.

tomertim
02-17-2013, 01:06 PM
Coffee, white gas from my MSR stove, Pikes Place Market, Mac and Jack African Amber, diesel, old books, gun cleaning oil, wooden duck calls, my 4 wheeler warming up, my wife's perfume, old football lockerroom, pine trees, oil and grease, and campfires.

Pelon1
02-17-2013, 01:17 PM
Mesquite wood in the smoker, Roses, Lilacs, gunpowder, and line dried sheets!

JP
02-17-2013, 01:47 PM
Diesel :haha:

tanya
02-17-2013, 02:33 PM
While I know that responses to certain odors are based on past experiences with the scent - smell is a powerful memory trigger, there are still many that are simply nice such as the scent of a man I love, a baby, the fresh air that comes through my window while I am sleeping, rain, the ocean, the woods, a rose, cut grass, clean sheets, Christmas, a natural wood box, a quality old book, coffee, fresh fruit, bread baking, beer, wine, chocolate cooking, tropical fruit, vanilla, and a campfire.

The air is so clean here, but my son, who lives next door likes to dutch oven cook outside. It smells good.


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savanna3313
02-17-2013, 02:36 PM
"Napalm in the morning......" :cool2:


Ok - actually, wood/campfire smoke when you're up in the canyons during the summer, freshly bathed babies, wildflowers and blooming sage, Bamboo fragrance (Salt City candles), Sundance after it rains and expensive cologne on a fine-looking man :naughty:

Iceaxe
02-17-2013, 04:50 PM
I also love the smell of Hoppe's #9

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Yes, I might be a redneck...

BruteForce
02-17-2013, 06:34 PM
I'll add a few more:

Winter's first fire at home, the smell of my woman, fresh out of the shower. The smell of my truck (diesel) idling in the garage, the smell of a hot summer rain and the smell of a flash flood in August in Casto Canyon..

DiscGo
02-17-2013, 07:03 PM
There are quite a few smells I love, but what is interesting about discovering this thread today is that today is the day I realized that I much prefer the smell of my wife's peach scented deodorant. It smells awesome!

Bootboy
02-17-2013, 07:29 PM
I also love the smell of Hoppe's #9
...

+1

8315421
02-18-2013, 08:31 AM
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Deuce
02-18-2013, 09:14 AM
Fall grass.

Grilling in the Summer.

A great cigar.

blueeyes
02-18-2013, 09:22 AM
fresh box of crayola crayons, play-doh, campfire, coffee, my ski jacket after a day in the powder, newborn baby, my grandmothers laundry room, my dad's old canvas army tent, phenylethyl alcohol agar plates, riding my mountain bike through the pine trees, my uncle's potato cellar in Idaho,and fresh cut grass

Iceaxe
02-18-2013, 09:43 AM
A 2 stroke motor running on a cold morning.

Is any beside me old enough to remember when 2-strokes pre-mixed with bean oil made from caster beans? That was a unique smell you will never forget. Great protection, great smell, nasty carbon build up.

Oh baby... Castrol R mixed with methanol in the air.

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BruteForce
02-18-2013, 09:55 AM
Is any beside me old enough to remember when 2-strokes pre-mixed with bean oil made from caster beans? That was a unique smell you will never forget. Great protection, great smell, nasty carbon build up.

Oh baby... Castrol R mixed with methanol in the air.

63542

I remember. Lately, though - I've ridden with a few 2 stroke bikes that had added flavorings to their fuel, such that the exhaust has a hint of blueberry and other aromas. Quite odd, but better than straight 2 stroke exhaust stink, I suppose.

Brian in SLC
02-18-2013, 10:37 AM
I like that carbon dioxidey smell from either bread rising or beer brewing. Kind of a yeasty wang.

Bar tack for a chainsaw. Sweet.

Freshly drilled limestone that has a bit of sea salt to it.

The smell of my hands after crack climbing at City of Rocks or Castle Rocks in Idaho. Must be lichen or some such. Very distinctive, kinda earthy dead plant type smell.

Bacon and eggs in a fryin' pan.

Sweet clover.

GSR.

tanya
02-18-2013, 12:23 PM
fresh box of crayola crayons, play-doh

Me too. :2thumbs: - child play toys, perhaps it's the memories.

Bootboy
02-18-2013, 02:07 PM
Back east, when all the leaves have fallen and begin to decompose in November, the air has a special smell to it that I think is just magical.

I love the smell of fuse strikers on avalanche control mornings, new rope, dr bronner's peppermint soap, my tent, my chalk bag, the snake river in September, my 4runner, chainsaws, the smell of a wood shop, smoking meat, my girlfriend after she's all prettied up, my guitar case, clean laundry, ionized air after a lightning strike (yikes), single track paved with leaves, puppies, and the Windrivers.

JP
02-18-2013, 05:27 PM
Back east, when all the leaves have fallen and begin to decompose in November, the air has a special smell to it that I think is just magical.
:nod:

Orange groves coming into full bloom.

Scott Card
02-20-2013, 11:51 AM
Football....

xjblue
02-22-2013, 10:24 AM
Sagebrush in the rain, and Sand Verbena laced spring desert air, blow by from a 289 Cid along with old vinyl seats, and bacon.

Mooseman70
02-22-2013, 11:50 AM
:nod:

Orange groves coming into full bloom.


Agree wholeheartedly, JP! Lived in a small town in SoCal that was surrounded by orange groves. Loved coming home from work when they were in bloom. Rolled the windows down and enjoyed the intoxicating aroma! I miss that.

I also love the smell of:

Campfire smoke
BBQ
Pipe tobacco / smoke
Ocean air
Fresh cut grass
Fresh ground coffee beans
Pine trees in the mountains
My kids after a bath
My wife's pina-colada scented body lotion :naughty:

JP
02-22-2013, 11:54 AM
There's nothing like it. I like the nights you can open those windows and let the orange blossom permeate the house. Okay, I need a bloom now :lol8:

Mooseman70
02-22-2013, 11:58 AM
Same with strawberry fields! My extended family farmed and grew acres upon acres of strawberries in SoCal, too. Loved to drive through those areas with the windows rolled down. Another intoxicating scent!

Sandstone Addiction
02-22-2013, 01:16 PM
A few of mine:

hot asphalt
fresh cut alfalfa
hot apple pie
fresh cut lumber
pinion pine campfire
tire smoke and nitro at NHRA race
wet concrete

rockgremlin
02-22-2013, 07:30 PM
My #1 favorite: Peaches. :naughty:

double moo
02-23-2013, 09:19 AM
the smell of plasticizer on a cold morning, steam rising off the mud, the steady shuusshhhh of the pump line with a Schwing metronome in the background.

yeah... that's the ticket...

accadacca
02-23-2013, 11:12 AM
A 2 stroke motor running on a cold morning.

A little 110 only makes it better.
Ditto. Reminds me of my childhood, riding my dirt bike in the desert. :ride:

Lotta good other scents mentioned, cool thread. :popcorn:

UTJetdog
02-26-2013, 01:42 PM
hot asphalt

Ha, that invoked some memories. I spent a summer 20 years ago with a paving crew doing compaction testing.

For me:

Bacon is way up there
Hoppies No. 9 - yeah, I get that
Burned gun powder - I don't shoot much anymore, but I still like it
Chain lube - for my bike(s)
Everything in the mountains except for those really pungent alpine meadow plants that come out in early summer - bleh!
Quality leather
The inside of my tent
Fresh cut hay after a summer storm
Cottonwood trees along a streambank
The lumber department at the Depot

Deathcricket
02-26-2013, 02:41 PM
No one mentions the resin smell of a freshly opened mint in box action figure? I am seriously disappoint.

Scott Card
02-26-2013, 02:57 PM
No one mentions the resin smell of a freshly opened mint in box action figure? I am seriously disappoint. That there is some reeree good Engrish. :lol8:

accadacca
02-26-2013, 04:05 PM
Did anyone mention whiteboard markers... ohhh yeaaaaaaaaaahhhhh. :jump_nutt:

8315421
03-04-2013, 06:10 AM
I hear lots of people enjoy the smell of cocaine. :-)

JP
03-04-2013, 07:19 AM
The blooms are here :2thumbs:

accadacca
03-04-2013, 08:09 AM
Gasoline! :ride:

savanna3313
03-04-2013, 08:19 AM
The blooms are here :2thumbs:

Yep - here too! Azaleas, dogwoods - just beautiful! High today in the lower 70s! One of the good things about living in the South....:2thumbs: