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Nasal memories of my grandparents' house: Mercury albums, pipe smoke / pipe tobacco (Half And Half, thank you) , the zillion Kodachrome slides and movies in a hall closet, and the asphalt-based glue between their radiant-heated concrete floors (a 1951 specialty) and the tiles above ... add the smells of instant coffee in the evening and the hay-field out back, in the summer. Anything with brown crinkle paint (Kodak projectors, Brunswick portables) seems to have a smell similar to those Mercury records. It's probably either poisonous or so enjoyable that somebody is working to make it illegal, right now! haha ----- Original Message ----- From: "Karl Miller" <[log in to unmask]> To: <[log in to unmask]> Sent: Wednesday, September 14, 2005 8:55 AM Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Unique record-related scents > On Tue, 13 Sep 2005, Don Tait wrote: > >> Does anyone remember the special scent of the paper in Schwann >> catalogues >> between about 1954 and 1961? It was unique. I love it. > > You would love sitting in my library at home... > > And the pungent scent of >> Mercury LPs from that time? I remember that at the record store I >> patronized, >> one always knew one was near the Mercuries because one could smell them. >> The >> scent seemed to come from something used on their labels because when >> they >> issued some Philips-licensed things beginning around 1961 (Richter, >> Mengelberg) >> the records had the same unique, pungent scent. > > And then there is that pungent odor of some of the Melodia boxed > sets...smelling like something the cat dragged in.