Timeless Smell Archive

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  • Odeuropa_Whiffstory_Card_Front.jpg

    Odeuropa scratch-and-sniff card provided with the American Historical Review 127.2 (2022). The scent features a reconstruction of the smell of Helena Schermar's gloves from her 1630 portrait.
    https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhac150
  • Odeuropa_LibertySmells_Card_Front.jpg

    Odeuropa's "Liberty Smells" card handed out at the American Historical Review conference. The scent is sprayed onto the card and has a metallic, musty, and bronzey odor reflecting the actual Liberty Bell.
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  • NumberOne_GoingLive_Card.jpg

    Scratch 'N' Sniff card for the Number One magazine, Going Live! radio show, and the Health Education Authority's collaboration (September 8, 1991) on the world of smells and the repurcutions of smoking, featuring pop starlet Sophie Lawrence. The card was only available in the UK and features four screen-printed odors.
  • Nick_01_Front.tiff

    Smell-O-Vision (scratch-and-sniff) cards for Nickelodeon's back-to-school promotional event (September 1999). Nine cards were available from Kraft mac-and-cheese boxes or Post cereal boxes, and accompanied episodes of The Wild Thornberrys, SpongeBob SquarePants, Rocket Power, and CatDog. The cards additionally doubled-up as a small puzzle. Puzzle 1 could be found in Post's Golden Crisp and Frosted Alpha-Bits boxes. Puzzle 2 could be found in Post's Marshmallow Alpha-Bits and Frostred Shredded Wheats boxes. Puzzle 3 was only available in Post's Honeycomb boxes.

    You can watch a compilation of the odor cues here.

    Episodes with scratch-and-sniff include:
    The Wild Thornberrys S02E35: "Show Me the Bunny" (odors 9, 3)
    The Wild Thornberrys S02E37: "Thornberry Island" (odors 8, 6, 7)
    The Wild Thornberrys S02E38: "Dances with Dingoes" (odors 5, 4, 6)
    SpongeBob SquarePants S01E08a: "Sandy's Rocket" (odors 9, 1)
    SpongeBob SquarePants S01E08b: "Squeaky Boots" (odor 2)
    Rocket Power S01E10a: "Super McVarial 900" (odors 3, 9)
    Rocket Power S01E10b: "Loss of Squid" (odors 3, 4)
    CatDog S02E01a: "Send in the CatDog" (odors 7, 6, 5)
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  • MyNameIsEarl_Card_Front.jpg

    Laugh 'n Sniff (scratch-and-sniff) card for the special broadcast of My Name is Earl (2007). The card features 6 screen-printed odors sponsored by Oreo, and was released in the April 30-May 6 2007 issue of TV Guide.
  • LivingSingle_01_Front.jpg

    Aroma-Vision (scratch-and-sniff) cards for the television premiere of Living Single "She Ain't Heavy, She's My Mother" (1994). There are 4 cards part of the Fox-O-Rama promotional partnership with 7-Eleven convenience stores; each card features a screen-printed odor.
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  • LGOP_SniffEd_Card_Front.jpg

    Gift for the Leather Goddesses of Phobos panelists of the Twitch and Sniff Along series. The limited "Definitive Sniff" edition included: the mysterious cut 8th odor; two new odors hinted at in the original game; a new smell puzzle; and a new scratch-and-sniff card based on older designs from the Leather Goddesses of Phobos Infocom Cabinet documents. Each panelist received a scratch-and-sniff card and copy of the game’s fan-made edition.
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