Aromatherapy

[Harold Lee Pickens]

At the hospital this morning was a display/sale of aromatherapy products in the cafeteria. They asked if I was interested in anything in particular, and I replied yes, I would like a bottle with the crisp coolness of the autumn air in the great northwoods, tinged with decaying popple leaves and maybe a trace of gunpowder and wet setter. All I got were some strange looks. Go figure.

[Chris Travinski]

I love the smell of Federal powder!

[Dean Romig]

At the hospital this morning was a display/sale of aromatherapy products in the cafeteria. They asked if I was interested in anything in particular, and I replied yes, I would like a bottle with the crisp coolness of the autumn air in the great northwoods, tinged with decaying popple leaves and maybe a trace of gunpowder and wet setter. All I got were some strange looks. Go figure.


No wonder you got strange looks..... you left out the "dank leaves and sweetfern and frosted apples"*....:shock:

(* by Corey Ford in "The Road to Tinkhamtown")






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[Destry L. Hoffard]

A bottle of Hoppes #9 and a couple spent paper shells will bring all that into view, at least in my mind.

[Paul Ehlers]

If you really want a strange reaction tell them.

The aroma of cleaning a Sage Grouse on a hot fall day on the high sagebrush steppes of the American west.

[Harold Lee Pickens]

well Paul, don't think that would be a best seller,but I would look forward to that experience someday, perhaps with my GH 16 o frame. I know many of these aromas would induce a deep, peaceful sleep for most of us.

[Jerry Harlow]

Don't forget the smell of the first fire of the fall you start on a cool October morning. For me as a kid it was not in a fireplace but a in wood stove. Still is.

[Forrest Grilley]

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[Dean Romig]

You'll think me strange, but one of the aromas that I have always loved - in moderation of course - is the faint smell of skunk on the air. Not the vile stench of a freshly flattened junk in the road, or the gag-inducing grossly pungent stink surrounding me as I attempt to wash it off my dog... but the faint hint on a frosty morning or evening in the fall. I can't really say why I enjoy it so much, but an experience I had with a skunk when I was a child might have started it. It was a very strange encounter for certain.






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[Rick Losey]

You'll think me strange,
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yes, yes we do :rotf:

[Russ Jackson]

A few years back I sent a Beautiful little Parker up to Miller Trigger to have some single trigger work done and when I got the gun back " Fully Repaired Of Course " and put her to my cheek the Wonderful Aroma of G 96 gun oil hit my senses and all of a sudden ,I was 12 Years Old again and sneaking up through our Old Orchard behind the Barn after the Illusive Cottontail with our Old Beagle Cleo !!!!!!!!!!! Just Wonderful !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:)

[CraigThompson]

At the hospital this morning was a display/sale of aromatherapy products in the cafeteria. They asked if I was interested in anything in particular, and I replied yes, I would like a bottle with the crisp coolness of the autumn air in the great northwoods, tinged with decaying popple leaves and maybe a trace of gunpowder and wet setter. All I got were some strange looks. Go figure.

Sounds like that bothersome display that was in the front of the Martha Jefferson hospital before they moved to the new location in C'ville !

[Gary Carmichael Sr]

For me a cool fall day and the smell of the fresh cut wood I am felling for the winter fires,and last but not least the aroma of split heart pine for kindling, Gary

[Randy Davis]

Ahhh... The drive home after a trapshoot with the spent Federal papers on the floor of your truck...

Trap3

[Jack Kuzepski]

I found an old bottle of Hoppes #9 about 1/2 full in my shop that is just for aromatherapy. So, I'm with Destry about Hoppes#9 and a few paper shells.

Jack Kuzepski

[Robin Lewis]

I use this in my truck.

I just did a search and Amazon had it at one time and may again? Google for it, I'm sure its around somewhere.

I must admit that they don't last as long as I would like.:cuss:

[John Dallas]

Is today's #9 the same stuff we grew up with? Someone told me that they had to change the composition.

[Eric Grims]

You'll think me strange, but one of the aromas that I have always loved - in moderation of course - is the faint smell of skunk

Dean - I can relate, skunk smell does come in varying degrees of intensity. What you mention reminds me of the soft skunk smell when you first open a pony bottle of Rolling Rock beer. Rather sweet.
Sad to say I've experience the higher end of skunk spray intensity that was like a burning electrical fire that started to blacken my vision to where I almost passed out.

[Jack Kuzepski]

I had heard the same thing; that the composition of Hoppes # 9 today is different than that of our younger days.

[Michael Moffa]

Destry got it right #9 and Federal Paper as the smells of my youth. I gave away 9 bottles of #9 when we moved down south. Wish I had kept one. I'd also add the smell of a cinder floored one car garage with a Model T truck inside.

[Stephen Hodges]

Aroma therapy.................

[Daryl Corona]

Thanks Dean, I never admitted it but I find the faint smell of skunk to be rather pleasing to the nostrils in a strange sort of way. Even when my dogs have been bombed by one, I can tolerate the smell much better then my hunting buddy. Go figure. Must be all those years of my Moms and Grandmoms constant cooking with fresh garlic. I love that smell, some hate it.

FWIW, when your dog gets nailed by Pepi le Peu, there is a foolproof way to get rid of it almost instantly using hydrogen peroxide 3%, dish soap and baking soda. I pack it in the truck right along with the canine first aid kit.

But I digress. Hoppe's #9 and freshly fired paper shells does it for me too.

[Phil Yearout]

To most any and all of the aromas listed I would add just the hint of a nice Burley or Virginia pipesmoke wafting in over it all.

[Jim Beilke]

The smell of rutting bull elk when you are easing thru the dark timber with a bow and arrow and you know he is close.

[charlie cleveland]

a few times when i was in the cotton fields picking cotton i could smell rain coming our way and knowed i would soon be leaving that field......charlie

[Gary Carmichael Sr]

Charlie, Picking Cotton ain't easy its sort of like priming tobacco, hot sweaty and with cotton at least you don't get the tar on you, but when I was in school 1.00 an hour was not bad for priming, The owner of the field would usually have a cold watermelon for us to eat before we went to the barn and climb them tier poles and hung the tobacco, first primings were the worst for the guy handing the sticks in the barn because of the sand on the leaves, brings back memories, sorry to high jack, gary

[George M. Purtill]

My aroma would be the smell of a Connecticut Valley tobacco barn after it is just filled and it is first fired to start the cure. In the day, we would start the dry down with real wood lump charcoal, that was an amazing combination of smells. I drove the charcoal truck for Tryon Farm. The charcoal came in burlap feed bags recycled. That was before we used propane but even with propane it is still a great wiff.
For you cigar aficionados, it is like a like opening a Griffin Tubo and inhaling deeply to the tenth power.
Hell, a tobacco barn in the CT Valley is a good wiff even in the off season.