Coal furnaces being used to heat houses. Used to be a very common smell around here every fall/winter. My grandpa burned coal until sometime in the early 90s when dad was no longer able to get the grade of coal he wanted.

I don't think I know what that smells like. I know coal furnaces used to be common, but I've never seen in operation that I recall.

It’s silage for me. Forked tons of the stuff when I was a boy.

Neighbor burned coal in his outside boiler until a couple years ago. Would get a tractor trailer load every year.
Said he can't get it anymore. Maybe price or another stupid NY law I'm not sure

Hedge burning in a stove or fireplace on a cold day. Branding smoke is another favorite

I miss the smell of a fresh mimeograph.

(probably explains a few things...)

Try finding a blacksmith and stand down wind, lol

Flue cured tobacco curing in a wood fired log barn about the time it is finished. The cured leaf has a nice smell as well.

Of my dad..

Eucalyptus trees in the City of Angeles

I loved the smell of freshly fired Remington or Winchester paper shotgun shells on a crisp November morning pheasant hunt.

Yes fresh cut silage is the best.

First time I smelled coal smoke, I was trudging up to an enormous tent . I was amazed by how much heat that little stove put out.

I also have to agree with the Silage fragrance.

we moved into the "haunted house" when I was in third grade...had to learn how to check/shake down/feed the coal furnace when I got home from school (Mom and Dad got home later than school let out).

Fortunately my grandpa was soft on us grandkids and we did not have to shovel and carry out the clinkers like he made my dad and uncle when they were younger. And by the time we grand kids came along he had installed a stoker so we never had to load the furnace either.

The production of pepermint and the distilling to produce oil during the 90's .......

I heated my house with a coal furnace for 15 years. Got good free stoker coal at the mine.

Tom Olson's Moundmaster #1. That is the smell of crisp days along a creek.

Marlin those were ditto copies over here.

Can still buy coal local but the quality is not good.

Fresh split white oak and cherry mix.

If your looking for bituminous smell find a steam engine convention, anthracite is a little harder to find, I miss the smell of peat burning.

Not me,,,,,,, if I smell it I freak….. to many fires in that stuff…

Believe it or not, I miss the smell of Gusto. It was a staple on my traplines in Alaska for many years. I have no use for it now but have been tempted to buy a small bottle just for nostalgia.

I’ll see if I can find that here.

it TASTES of burnt peat, Bob.

Most people think that of Scotch anyways.

I'm a beer drinker, so what do I know?

We burned coal in a furnace in the basement when I was a kid. The coal was from a small mine about 30 miles away. When they shut the mine down we used a lot of pionion pine and some cedar (not a true cedar but Utah Juniper). I do remember the coal smoke smelling okay. But the cedar smoke was my favorite - a very pleasant sweet smelling smoke.

Just the thought of it took me back to nights when I was a teenager. I would ride the bus to Panguitch to watch our teams play basketball or wrestle. The bus would drop me off at the top of the street. The stars always seemed so bright on those cold nights and I would always hear mallards calling down on the river below the house. And the smell of the smoke was so inviting when I got close to the house.

It's cool how smells are such a powerful trigger for memories.

Most of the buildings on Ft . McCoy were still heated by coal in the winter of 90-91 when we deployed for the gulf War.
All in all, I prefer the smell of diesel exhaust and cigarette smoke.

Sitting on the back porch with grandpa , while cleaning his rifle with hoppe ‘s # 9 solvent.