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.