Olfactory Airs - industrial odors for use on model railroads - liquid that you spread around the layout to make it smell just like the real thing. Here is a sampling of the available odors:

701 Burning Coal
702 Diesel Oil
705 Roasting Corn
707 Gasoline
711 Burning Anthracite (Low Sulphur)
715 Volatile Solvent
721 Kosher Dill
722 Molten Rubber
724 Fish
731 Chlorine Bleaching Chemical
732 Tomatoes
740 Burning Wood
743 Nitrobenzene
746 Vinegar

Noticably absent is GERN flux.

To be honest, I don't know if I really want my layout room smelling like diesel oil and volatile solvent.

this has to be a joke...right? FISH?!! Most railroad smells are ones I would much rather live without. Ever smelled heavy weight gear oil? That stuff smells worse that a dirty diaper. I guess that is one smell they missed - the direct dump toilet.

I miss the perfume of the new secretary of the VP...

I just did a cursory search using Google ...

Apparently the company was so wildly successful that they just wafted away like a fresh Spring zephyr ...

Kevin, the ad is in several of the 1988ish RMCs. This one is on page 16 of the September issue. And biL is right, a search on "Mikros Corporation" or "Olfactory Airs" turns up nothing related to this product. Apparently not many model railroaders wanted to stink up their layouts.

More scents:

709 Heated Tar

Yeah, EXACTLY what I want to smell while enjoying my hobby time!

713 Rum

Hmm... a bottle of the real stuff may induce a happier modeling experience.

Here we go...

716 Live Cattle, Manure

and Hank Hill's favorite:

742 Propane

That's amazing! Looking through the list...Volatile Solvent?!!?!! REALLY!!!???!!!

faraway Wrote:I miss the perfume of the new secretary of the VP...

That would be Cookie Gibson's latest doll...err...assistant.

Gary S Wrote:Here we go...

716 Live Cattle, Manure

Consumption of a Bean Burrito and Chili Cheese Nachos from Taco Bell will produce the same odour giving your layout that fresh methane scent.

I think I actually ran into some of that at a show.
Certainly, I don't remember smelling it again.
Some of them would be hard to tell from natural show smells.

Was there a brewery listed in the ad? But then even breweries don't smell that great, and I like my beer!

A paper factory would make for another "interesting" smell.

Rob

I must admit that the smell of burning coal does the same thing to me as the taste of chocolate to a woman. It also brings back memories of when I was a kid, working on a steam traction engine during each August. That is a smell I wish I could enjoy more than once or so a year when I go to the Strasburg.

A goodly number of years ago I had a customer that worked in the Texas oil pipeline industry. When his wife was pregnant, she didn't crave pickles and ice cream, no, she craved the smell of crude oil. He said he had to drive her over some freshly oiled roads to satisfy her craving. I remember one time we were visiting there and we all climbed up on one of those crude oil storage tanks and watched her taking in the odors. Some smells can be addicting I guess, but that was a bit far out.

As far as train room smells, mine always seems to smell of Volatile Solvent seeing as how I usually knock over a bottle of something while the cap is off.

RobertInOntario Wrote:Was there a brewery listed in the ad?

708 Malt and Yeast

RobertInOntario Wrote:A paper factory would make for another "interesting" smell.

731 Chlorine Bleaching Chemical - the ad says it is for a paper mill

Rendering plant...?

Andrew

I remember those goobers ... however, they did have a pretty cool product in "Wireless Willie" the brakemen with a lantern in 2 different poses. They also had a pretty good model of a mine interior you were to mount below your layout and view through the fascia.