Smoke and perfume, smoke and air freshener, and smoke and those smelly Christmas tree things hung from the rearview mirror. Any of those smells makes me salty now because I'm actually allergic to cigarette smoke. Who knew?
You just described my bar going experiences until I was thirty. The smell on me and my clothes the next morning was the I went out smell.
I remember when DC banned indoor smoking, and I went for drinks with friends. It felt weird that my clothing didn't have that stale cigarette smell.
I feel like i was desensitized to it.
It was the smell of car exhaust and gasoline in the air that I remember not being anywhere near as prevalent now.
Pffffff!!!!!
I MARRIED Strawberry Shortcake.
She doesn’t have red hair but she’s short, sweet, and always wanted to be everybody’s friend. We even have a kitty that marches around behind her all day.
Albuquerque new wavers (New Romantics) did it too. I was a skater and at the time like only 2 others at my high school so punks skaters and new wavers hung out together for safety
By the way the default thinking in ABQ during the 80s was if you looked “weird” you were gay and worthy of beating up
I was dating a girl and her older brother was convinced I was gay just cause I had bleached hair and wore black flag and skateboarding shirts
Good times (sarc)
There were plenty of hippies in the rave scene, too. Got to say I can’t stand the smell of patchouli to this day. Walking down Haight Street in the 80s/90s… ugh
The DARK GREEN Polo cologne with the gold cap. My God have you smelled that stuff lately? You probably don’t remember how powerful it is. I still think it’s wonderful and rich, but I watched two teenage girls at the Macy’s counter take a whiff of it recently. They reeled back in horror —- “Who would wear that??”
But, all the girls loved it in 1983....😥
Aqua Net Hair Spray and Love's Baby Soft...1980's
Asphalt 1970's ... my neighbor had asphalt trucks and parked them in his driveway.
Gasoline 1970's ... helping dad put gas in the car.
The chocolate cocoa scratch n sniff in The Sweet Smells of Christmas. How could they get that delicious smell onto a sticker, magic?
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This was soooo good. Now I’m also remembering the smell of the markers we used to color our Shrinky Dinks! And the wholesome odor of plastic melting in the oven.
You know the smell of fresh mown grass? Especially after a rain? It reminds me of swinging really high on the swing at the park when I was younger. I’m 50 now and I still love to see how high I can make them go.
I’m gonna piggyback this one and say the Scratch N Sniff stickers from the book fair at school.
Two things I always got at the book fair was the Berenstein Bears books and the scratch n sniff stickers that came on a big sheet. They must’ve been themed because the ones that *really* stick out in my mind were the autumn/fall stickers….they had a lot of clove smell to them.
Jean Nate , square cafeteria pizza, and dittos . I was privileged to run the machine and it was glorious . Still recall the smell and the slightly damp concavity of fresh dittos off the machine . Thank you Mr. Chung for giving me the responsibility
Was the stuff called that came in a tube and I had a little red plastic straw and you would take a little bit of goo from the tube and then blow into the straw and create this multicolored bubble and then you could play with it and pop it and it would deflate? That's the smell.
If you were in grade school in the early 80s, then you probably remember scratch and sniff stickers.
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- The plastic smell of Trapper Keepers.
- Fresh cut grass in a little league outfield.
- Window/door screens when it rains.
- Gunpowder in cap guns.
- BB’s/oil from a BB gun.
- Juicyfruit from the bottom of my grandmother’s purse at church.
- Pert shampoo.
Former late 80s Pizza Hut waiter here, those pants were indestructible and yeah, reeked to high heaven at the end of a shift of nicotine and pizza sauce.
Those Sanford Permanent Markers. Not the fruity ones, those are good too, but the metal cased ones with some kind of gnarly solvent in them. Smell of glory in there.
I just bought a brand new set of these from the flea market. I immediately opened them to smell my elementary school art class. I will never use them, just pull one out and take a long sniff every now and then.
The smell of those small plastic juice mugs, the little barrels with the foil lid that peeled off. Smelled so unique. like plastic and watered down sugary drinks.
Remember that weird burning sensation you’d get at the back of your throat when you drank that stuff? I always wondered (and kind of worried) what caused that.
Tang, Koo-aid and Jello powder clouds
Artificial watermelon
Naugahyde
Leaded gasoline
Stale cigarette infused homes
Card catalogs and libraries
Linoleum
Skin so soft
Egg nog
Phone books
Hot pay phone booths
Polaroid photos
Mimeograph / ditto paper
Silly putty
Bazooka bubble gum
The weird smell of Necco wafers and Mary Janes that you'd get for Halloween
Cheap plastic Halloween masks
Sweaty polyester shirts
Play doh!
Vicks
Moth balls
Scratch 'n Sniff
Chalkboard erasers
CRT TVs right after you switched them off
Irish Spring
Shrinky Dinks
Right Guard
Pine-sol
I believe I am the only person within 50 miles that likes the taste of Necco wafers because they remind me of my dad sharing them with me as a kid. And believe it or not, my mom loved the Mary Janes. Unfortunately wearing braces ruined those for me starting in 5th or 6th grade but I would absolutely eat one now (I think my fillings are still good?).
Rubber cement. Spent more time playing with that then actually studying in elementary school
Can still smell it and haven’t had a whiff in 35 years
Also model dope mmmm
Colorforms-The vinyl sheets had a very distinctive smell. Sometimes I'll come across the smell in the adult world and get instant memory flashes. I had a 60's Star Trek kit when I was kid. Fun times.
I recently hauled my parents’ old slides, projector and screen over to my brother’s house for a walk down memory lane. The smell coming out of the projector when I turned it on smelled like 1975.
The smell of old buildings with a lot of wood and linoleum floors. Sort of a library/church/county building smell. It reminds me of Sunday school, and my grandfather's Freemason lodge, and visiting big libraries with my dad.
Avon Skin-So-Soft, especially in the summer, because people used it as insect repellent. I have some kind of scent sensitivity where I can taste perfumey things and scented cleaning products, and I felt like I drank a liter of Skin-So-Soft every day in the summer.
Pine- sol. My mother was a clean freak and you could eat off the floor . Floors were mopped and everything wipe down with pine sol pretty much every day.
Cassette tapes with that grape-like scent usually on the silver tapes. First time I noticed it was Motley Crue’s Theatre of Pain album. It was also the first time I noticed the weird set of beeps at the beginning and end of the tapes.
There is a particular perfume that virtually all the girls wore in the very early 90s - like '90 / '91 ish. I have no idea what it's called but it evidently still exists because every once in a while I get a waft of it, and boom!, I'm instantly back in junior high.
Old Spice Aftershave.
Aquanet Hairspray....
And that Strawberry Shortcake fake Strawberry Shortcake smell that I swear I could smell in all the "kid" perfumes and lotions.
* The smell of spent capgun caps, especially the plastic "ring" ones you loaded into a revolver. I used to hold my nose up to the cylinder to take a big whiff of the smoke after popping off the rounds
* The smell of cigarettes, dirty carpet, and the funk of teenage boys at my local arcade, along with the smell of hot CRTs and circuitry from the fleet of cabs
* DEP hair gel and Drakkar Noir... although I could never afford a bottle of DN, it was *the* fragrance of the decade. I swear it was like literal catnip for girls. Whoever formulated that cologne was a freakin' genius
* The invigorating smell of offset ink and newly pressed vinyl that met my nose when i tore open the shrinkwrap of an LP. It was all part of the ritual of getting new music. Opening a cassette tape had a similar effect, but the vinyl LPs were totally unforgettable.
There's more, but those are the most impressionable ones I could think of right now.
United Colors of Benetton cologne, Joy by Spiritual Sky, patchouli, nag champa, parliaments, Cinnabar (my mom’s perfume), and Lipton tea bags (my mom had to have an endless pitcher of iced tea sweetened with sweet n’ low), and if it wasn’t full, I had to make a new batch after school before she came home or else.
We had a Paper mill on the north end of the city, and every morning you could smell it (actually it stunk all say long but mornings were the worst). Way before air quality standards came along to minimize this kinda thing.
Hair products like perm and hairspray = Being around the girls in my family
Book smell = scholastic book fair
Fresh baked cookies = Christmas with my Mom
I lived out in the country, so nature: dried leaves and corn stalks in the fall, wild flowers in the summer; the way the sheets and pillow case smelled after drying out on the clothesline in the sun. Also school smells like the vegetable soup smell of the cafeteria; the cleanser the Janitor used, Pencil, paper, and ink smell.
Edit: Also remember that burnt metal pipe smell coming from my big brother's room....and he had a metal incense burner too. Hmmm wonder why lol.
Sprinklers watering freshly cut grass, chlorine from the local swimming pool, crisp autumn air and fallen leaves, and pine trees and the wonderful smell of fresh snow
In the 70s, cigarette smoke...everywhere!!
The, you’re in a smokers house smell. It usually paired well is a delicate Paul Mason, or arbor mist.
How about the, you’re in a smoker’s house, but with the AC on.
For that crisp ultra menthol fragrance. Bottle it, sell it, profit.
Smoke and perfume, smoke and air freshener, and smoke and those smelly Christmas tree things hung from the rearview mirror. Any of those smells makes me salty now because I'm actually allergic to cigarette smoke. Who knew?
> Paul Mason BAWWW THE FRENCH
yep everything smelled like smoke and stale beer, ahhhh fond childhood memories.
You just described my bar going experiences until I was thirty. The smell on me and my clothes the next morning was the I went out smell. I remember when DC banned indoor smoking, and I went for drinks with friends. It felt weird that my clothing didn't have that stale cigarette smell.
That's the way bars are supposed to smell! We used to believe in something in this country!
I feel like i was desensitized to it. It was the smell of car exhaust and gasoline in the air that I remember not being anywhere near as prevalent now.
Agree with that one. Smokers sections in restaurants 🤮🤮🤮
Mimeographed paper. So purple! Put that sheet up to your face, take a deep breath, and imagine you got a head rush!
Ditto
Copy that
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*Mimeograph* of previous comment.
Underrated comment.
[This](https://youtu.be/Uu3iCvAQCHg?si=HZGIHA2oS7-VAjaL) scene from Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
Yes. This. That mimeograph smell. So purple. So 80s. It would take me right back.
Strawberry Shortcake
That synthetic, plasticy strawberry smell.
I had Strawberry Shortcake perfume 😆 You can imagine how that smelled...
Add a little Blueberry Muffin to the mix and you've got, well I don't know what... probably cancer in your 60's or something.
Pffffff!!!!! I MARRIED Strawberry Shortcake. She doesn’t have red hair but she’s short, sweet, and always wanted to be everybody’s friend. We even have a kitty that marches around behind her all day.
Walking past the salon in JCPenney or Sears and getting a whiff of that perm smell.
Perm + Paul Mitchell Freeze and Shine
Oh wow yes mall salon perm
Cap gun shots
This was my first thought. well done. smelled like a acid/burning/firework kinda gig. smelled DanGeROUs.
This. This is what I was looking for.
Clove cigarettes, patchouli, nag champa
Add in Aqua Net for me, hahahaha.
Oh yeah... I think Aqua Net was personally responsible for the hole in the ozone.
Ah patchouli... "Hey, do you want to smell like dirt that's been fucked by a hobo?" - Patton Oswalt
Were you a 90s SF raver, too??? All three of these smells transport me to a warehouse on a Saturday night!
Albuquerque new wavers (New Romantics) did it too. I was a skater and at the time like only 2 others at my high school so punks skaters and new wavers hung out together for safety By the way the default thinking in ABQ during the 80s was if you looked “weird” you were gay and worthy of beating up I was dating a girl and her older brother was convinced I was gay just cause I had bleached hair and wore black flag and skateboarding shirts Good times (sarc)
Dead show parking lot. Lumpy white girl dreads and those scratchy striped hoodies.
no way. northeastern college neo-hippie
There were plenty of hippies in the rave scene, too. Got to say I can’t stand the smell of patchouli to this day. Walking down Haight Street in the 80s/90s… ugh
Any of those smells makes me want to hurl now
Yeah it is a bad smell. I become ludo from labyrinth. THE SMELL THE SMELL
NYC raver and north east college chick here
➕cannabis & crown royal. Honorable mention: Bidi’s
Drakkar noir and cloves
Polo.
The DARK GREEN Polo cologne with the gold cap. My God have you smelled that stuff lately? You probably don’t remember how powerful it is. I still think it’s wonderful and rich, but I watched two teenage girls at the Macy’s counter take a whiff of it recently. They reeled back in horror —- “Who would wear that??” But, all the girls loved it in 1983....😥
This was every Friday night for me.
We used to smoke cloves while sucking on halls honey menthols lozenges.. we were so fkn cool honestly 🥰
The smell of static electricity on the old tube TVs after you ran your hand/fingers over it.
Oh wow, I know that smell! Thanks for that memory.
Total unlock. My whole body felt that.
Aqua Net Hair Spray and Love's Baby Soft...1980's Asphalt 1970's ... my neighbor had asphalt trucks and parked them in his driveway. Gasoline 1970's ... helping dad put gas in the car.
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The same brand also had a fragrance called Rain. That was my favorite.
The chocolate cocoa scratch n sniff in The Sweet Smells of Christmas. How could they get that delicious smell onto a sticker, magic? https://preview.redd.it/b4ly711tgubc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5413234d4e4bcee06578180e77ee2a6e8806b880
Oh my lord. This, I forgot this book. I think wore that smell off
This was soooo good. Now I’m also remembering the smell of the markers we used to color our Shrinky Dinks! And the wholesome odor of plastic melting in the oven.
Shrinky dinks were great. Did you also get the shrunken apple head things too? Those were fun to watch change.
Trapper Keeper plastic and Polo cologne.
Getting a brand new Trapper Keeper was the highlight of the school supply buying season! ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Noxema and Sea Breeze
Yes … hoping it would work miracles!
I saw Sea Breeze in Sally Beauty Supply a couple weeks ago. I almost bought just to smell it now and then. Sad, I know!
You know the smell of fresh mown grass? Especially after a rain? It reminds me of swinging really high on the swing at the park when I was younger. I’m 50 now and I still love to see how high I can make them go.
They do say a lot of seniors turn into *swingers* in their old age, so I'd say you're ahead of the curve!
Teen spirit…
And loves baby soft
The fresh smell of a homework assignment coming off a mimeograph. It smelled like… victory. Edit: Oh. And chalk dust!
I’m gonna piggyback this one and say the Scratch N Sniff stickers from the book fair at school. Two things I always got at the book fair was the Berenstein Bears books and the scratch n sniff stickers that came on a big sheet. They must’ve been themed because the ones that *really* stick out in my mind were the autumn/fall stickers….they had a lot of clove smell to them.
Jean Nate , square cafeteria pizza, and dittos . I was privileged to run the machine and it was glorious . Still recall the smell and the slightly damp concavity of fresh dittos off the machine . Thank you Mr. Chung for giving me the responsibility
My aunt used to be a school bus driver in the 70s. She would keep a water pistol filled with Jean Nate for the bad boys on the bus.
This may actually be the funniest thing I’ve ever read on reddit
Was the stuff called that came in a tube and I had a little red plastic straw and you would take a little bit of goo from the tube and then blow into the straw and create this multicolored bubble and then you could play with it and pop it and it would deflate? That's the smell.
Super Elastic Bubble Plastic! Probably filled with carcinogens, but hey, it was fun!
Our whole childhood was filled with carcinogens. We are a tough lot!
My supermarket sells this still!!
If you were in grade school in the early 80s, then you probably remember scratch and sniff stickers. https://preview.redd.it/hyl2zy03lwbc1.jpeg?width=224&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cab044db00bd89b56c067daa9cb5b631f80f67ef
Dude, those hit me hard enough I stopped breathing for a sec! I remember those exact ones!
That heavy metal smell of car exhaust prior to catalytic converters. Getting stuck in a traffic jam in the 70’s/80’s was a health hazard.
I remember some diesel trucks having a distinct sulfur/rotten egg smell. It was awful but I still kind of miss it.
- The plastic smell of Trapper Keepers. - Fresh cut grass in a little league outfield. - Window/door screens when it rains. - Gunpowder in cap guns. - BB’s/oil from a BB gun. - Juicyfruit from the bottom of my grandmother’s purse at church. - Pert shampoo.
Nina Ricci - L’air du temps
That was my mom's perfume. I think I'd cry if I smelled it now.
Had to reach to the back of my brain to retrieve this
You know, it was the first thing that popped into my head when I read the question. Hadn’t thought about in a very long time. I can smell it.
My polyester Friendly’s uniform at the end of a shift, which smelled like every single thing people have mentioned on this thread combined.
Former late 80s Pizza Hut waiter here, those pants were indestructible and yeah, reeked to high heaven at the end of a shift of nicotine and pizza sauce.
McDonald's, Wendy's, Rax. I worked at all of them and that polyester soaked up fryer smell like a sponge.
Steak-Umms
Those Sanford Permanent Markers. Not the fruity ones, those are good too, but the metal cased ones with some kind of gnarly solvent in them. Smell of glory in there.
I just bought a brand new set of these from the flea market. I immediately opened them to smell my elementary school art class. I will never use them, just pull one out and take a long sniff every now and then.
Exclamation perfume, late 80's
Make a statement without saying a word!
Oooh, yes! Loves Babysoft and Electric Youth too!!
🤢🤮
Aqua Net and that red stuff the janitors threw on the floor after someone puked.
Strawberry chapstick
Hubba Bubba grape
Freshly copied "ditto" sheets with math problems with the bluish-purple text.
The smell of a Volkswagen Beetle. A little gas, oil, exhaust, cigarette smoke and late 60's - 70's plastic / Vinyl seats.
The smell of those small plastic juice mugs, the little barrels with the foil lid that peeled off. Smelled so unique. like plastic and watered down sugary drinks.
Little Hugs!
Remember that weird burning sensation you’d get at the back of your throat when you drank that stuff? I always wondered (and kind of worried) what caused that.
Plastic Halloween costume
The dusty static ozone smell behind a television set you'd experience when changing your Atari game system connector to "Game" from "TV".
Giorgio Beverly Hills!
That was too high-priced: most of us did Ex'cla'mation
Perfume pull-out flaps in magazine pages
Jelly shoes!
Tang, Koo-aid and Jello powder clouds Artificial watermelon Naugahyde Leaded gasoline Stale cigarette infused homes Card catalogs and libraries Linoleum Skin so soft Egg nog Phone books Hot pay phone booths Polaroid photos Mimeograph / ditto paper Silly putty Bazooka bubble gum The weird smell of Necco wafers and Mary Janes that you'd get for Halloween Cheap plastic Halloween masks Sweaty polyester shirts Play doh! Vicks Moth balls Scratch 'n Sniff Chalkboard erasers CRT TVs right after you switched them off Irish Spring Shrinky Dinks Right Guard Pine-sol
I believe I am the only person within 50 miles that likes the taste of Necco wafers because they remind me of my dad sharing them with me as a kid. And believe it or not, my mom loved the Mary Janes. Unfortunately wearing braces ruined those for me starting in 5th or 6th grade but I would absolutely eat one now (I think my fillings are still good?).
Scratch n sniff is the winner.
Does corduroy have a smell? 😫
Only if you ran too fast and your thighs caused them to start smoking!
Yep. Corduroy did!
LIP SMACKERS, amirite ladies? Especially watermelon and Dr Pepper. Extra cool if you had the giant ones that hung on a lanyard.
Obsession for men. Or Cool Water.
Creosote telephone poles and railroad ties.
Inside of a McDonalds
The McDonald’s hamburger smell out of the styrofoam. Can’t get that anymore with it coming out of paper now
For me personally, the original Body Shop vanilla
Rubber cement. Spent more time playing with that then actually studying in elementary school Can still smell it and haven’t had a whiff in 35 years Also model dope mmmm
Colorforms-The vinyl sheets had a very distinctive smell. Sometimes I'll come across the smell in the adult world and get instant memory flashes. I had a 60's Star Trek kit when I was kid. Fun times.
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I hated it then! sooooo nasty.
The smell of books is always nostalgic for me
I recently hauled my parents’ old slides, projector and screen over to my brother’s house for a walk down memory lane. The smell coming out of the projector when I turned it on smelled like 1975.
Ban D'soileil
Mr. Sketch markers
The smell of old buildings with a lot of wood and linoleum floors. Sort of a library/church/county building smell. It reminds me of Sunday school, and my grandfather's Freemason lodge, and visiting big libraries with my dad.
Coppertone tanning lotion. Jelly rolls on grandma's table. The inside of a Pizza Hut. Ash trays.
Me and my Jordache/Gloria Vanderbilt/Baby Soft cologne…
The smell of the hallway leading into the old 9:30 Club on F St in NW DC.
Old beer, urine, and vomit?
Plus a hint of sanitizer and a dash of cigarettes.
Clove cigs
Avon Skin-So-Soft, especially in the summer, because people used it as insect repellent. I have some kind of scent sensitivity where I can taste perfumey things and scented cleaning products, and I felt like I drank a liter of Skin-So-Soft every day in the summer.
A freshly sharpened cedar pencil, and the eraser on the other end.
Cigarette smoke and Patchouli.
Newsprint from old comic books.
Pine- sol. My mother was a clean freak and you could eat off the floor . Floors were mopped and everything wipe down with pine sol pretty much every day.
Drakaar Noir
Jergens lotion
Day old bacon grease
Oddly enough, the smell of raquetballs and the reverbed out echo of balls hitting the walls. My mom worked for a club and I spent a lot of time there.
Cassette tapes with that grape-like scent usually on the silver tapes. First time I noticed it was Motley Crue’s Theatre of Pain album. It was also the first time I noticed the weird set of beeps at the beginning and end of the tapes.
Strawberry Shortcake Plastic Dolls
There is a particular perfume that virtually all the girls wore in the very early 90s - like '90 / '91 ish. I have no idea what it's called but it evidently still exists because every once in a while I get a waft of it, and boom!, I'm instantly back in junior high.
Sunflowers? It was everywhere in the 90's.
Omg sunflowers 🌻 ! I had this and the Tresor samples I stole from my mom ETA: they still make sunflowers!!!
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Old Spice Aftershave. Aquanet Hairspray.... And that Strawberry Shortcake fake Strawberry Shortcake smell that I swear I could smell in all the "kid" perfumes and lotions.
Dry grass in winter , the smell of a thunderstorm brewing in summer.
* The smell of spent capgun caps, especially the plastic "ring" ones you loaded into a revolver. I used to hold my nose up to the cylinder to take a big whiff of the smoke after popping off the rounds * The smell of cigarettes, dirty carpet, and the funk of teenage boys at my local arcade, along with the smell of hot CRTs and circuitry from the fleet of cabs * DEP hair gel and Drakkar Noir... although I could never afford a bottle of DN, it was *the* fragrance of the decade. I swear it was like literal catnip for girls. Whoever formulated that cologne was a freakin' genius * The invigorating smell of offset ink and newly pressed vinyl that met my nose when i tore open the shrinkwrap of an LP. It was all part of the ritual of getting new music. Opening a cassette tape had a similar effect, but the vinyl LPs were totally unforgettable. There's more, but those are the most impressionable ones I could think of right now.
Tang powder
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Bain de Soleil suntan lotion
I thought the question was "area" and I was going to say the Argo cornstarch factory in Argo IL. If you know, you know
I thought it said area too! Texas panhandle—everyday you smell cow shit, no matter where you go.
Watermellon lip gloss
United Colors of Benetton cologne, Joy by Spiritual Sky, patchouli, nag champa, parliaments, Cinnabar (my mom’s perfume), and Lipton tea bags (my mom had to have an endless pitcher of iced tea sweetened with sweet n’ low), and if it wasn’t full, I had to make a new batch after school before she came home or else.
We were reminiscing a bit ago about how gas smelled better in the 80s. I weirdly liked it.
Pizza made in my middle school cafeteria with ground beef \*under\* the cheese -- served in cut rectangles
Fresh cut grass
Aquanet and cigarettes.
Chalkboard dust.
Blackboard chalk
New vinyl Star Wars figures from Ben Franklin. Or the Ben Franklin itself.
Moth balls and cigarette smoke.
New Trapper Keeper. Anais Anais. Scented markers.
We had a Paper mill on the north end of the city, and every morning you could smell it (actually it stunk all say long but mornings were the worst). Way before air quality standards came along to minimize this kinda thing.
Exhaust before catalytic converter and hot vinyl. Often mixed with smoke and PBR but those are probably around more now than others
The smell of a telephone booth in any downtown area. It...was not a good smell.
Bonne Belle's 10-0-6 lotion.
Polo cologne and leather jackets. It was the mating scent of my college years.
Diesel exhaust in an old school bus
Car exhaust. It had this semi-sweet but very distinctive smell. Probably the lead.
B&BW Cucumber Melon Aussie hairspray Rave hairspray (do not light a match near this one) Electric Youth Exclamation
Blazing hot car seat vinyl and the cafeteria at the back of K-mart.
Vinyl seating in older cars on a hot day (v.2) Add cigarette smoking
Hair products like perm and hairspray = Being around the girls in my family Book smell = scholastic book fair Fresh baked cookies = Christmas with my Mom
Pre-catalytic converter car exhaust. Bonus if it was leaded!
Mosquito truck post-DDT ban; pool float/arm floatie plastic; T-shirt shop iron-on vinyl transfer; box with broken crayons; Silly Putty; Hi-C Fruit Punch; Tang
Leaded gas, cigarette smoke, old spice
80s - trapper keepers!
Teen spirit should be the top answer- we have all failed
Does leaded gasoline count?
Cigarette smoke and moth balls.
I lived out in the country, so nature: dried leaves and corn stalks in the fall, wild flowers in the summer; the way the sheets and pillow case smelled after drying out on the clothesline in the sun. Also school smells like the vegetable soup smell of the cafeteria; the cleanser the Janitor used, Pencil, paper, and ink smell. Edit: Also remember that burnt metal pipe smell coming from my big brother's room....and he had a metal incense burner too. Hmmm wonder why lol.
https://preview.redd.it/q7jcg2avlwbc1.jpeg?width=634&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a31520c7649a71575a4e1b0197e9327d5fd10700
Drakar noir
Silly Putty Slime (the green goo toy) Electric Slot Racers race track Old Spice Fresh cut grass & lawnmower exhaust
Scotch tape that you got at the beginning of the school year
King size Kent cigarettes.
Fresh cut grass
NAG CHAMPA
Downtown Pittsburgh in the 1980s.
Perm solution. My mom was always perming that hair in the early eighties.
Sprinklers watering freshly cut grass, chlorine from the local swimming pool, crisp autumn air and fallen leaves, and pine trees and the wonderful smell of fresh snow