Mega-Steam scent differences?

Not an exact answer to your question but... I prefer more pleasant scents because smoke can really hang around in a train room and migrate to other places in the house. Maybe I'm just a wuss LOL!

Having said that, after experiencing coal burning steamers NKP 765 and PM 1225 the coal scent does indeed smell like a coal fired steamer, minus the cinders falling out of the sky of course

Luv mega steam and have forced air heating cooling system which allows the scents to.pass up.thru the house. So I and the wife love hot chocolate vanilla barbecue  pumpkin baking bread pepermint christmas pine bayberry and I few others. I recommend for my reason above avoid coal diesel wood stove and those in that category. I have not used the cleaning fluid and have had zero issues just wait till unit is empty and add half a dropper at a time. Remember less is more.

Mike the Eliminator cleaning fluid is added just as you would any smoke fluid. It will neutralize the scent you may have previously used. I would compare the scent of the Eliminator to a mild Lysol smell. The coal diesel and oil fired scents do smell prototypical. One thing for sure is that the smoke volume produced is excellent.

The scents are very different, we prefer the more fragrant ones, and as mentioned you may find the "Coal" being used sparingly😉

@dk122trains posted:

Luv mega steam and have forced air heating cooling system which allows the scents to.pass up.thru the house. So I and the wife love hot chocolate vanilla barbecue  pumpkin baking bread pepermint christmas pine bayberry and I few others. I recommend for my reason above avoid coal diesel wood stove and those in that category. I have not used the cleaning fluid and have had zero issues just wait till unit is empty and add half a dropper at a time. Remember less is more.

hot chocolate vanilla barbecue  pumpkin baking bread pepermint christmas pine bayberry??

That's a scent? Does the bottle have an extra large label on it to allow this to fit?

Grandpa's Pipe Smoke is my go to favorite, mellow and pleasant.  I like the Leather one a lot while smoking, but it leaves a less pleasant after smell.  The Coffee is a nice mellow one too.  I have tried some of the sweeter smells and don't care for them.

I agree with the masses, I use some of the more pleasant scents, the coal and oil are pretty pungent.  My wire likes Clove Sensation, and I don't mind it, so I tend to use that.

Does the vanilla scent have an underlying 'smoke oil' smell? I tried the MTH vanilla one years ago and it still had that an overpowering smoke oil smell underneath the actual scent

If Pepe LePew is coming to operate, MARX smoke fits the bill.  Smels like the original!

Now, if you want NO SCENT, use NAFA.

@RoyBoy posted:

hot chocolate vanilla barbecue  pumpkin baking bread pepermint christmas pine bayberry??

That's a scent? Does the bottle have an extra large label on it to allow this to fit?

Yes it can be one scent.  Just buy a bottle of each of the nine different scents listed and pour them all into one large bottle.

You will have to print your own label.

You will need to stir the contents of the larger bottle or take a little from each level with an eyedropper.   Just to make sure you don't suck up all one flavor in the eyedropper. 

@RadioRon posted:

I think it is actually "NADA."    

Crrection accepted.

Thanks for the feedback on the different exhaust scented fluids. I was curious as to whether or not there was enough difference to buy different ones. It appears that they are different enough to try them all at some point.

I’ve been using Mega Steam exclusively for a number of years now.  Coal Fired Steam, Diesel Power, Eliminator as well as their b-Gone cleaner.  I didn’t see anyone mention the diesel fluid, but I can say that it does smell like diesel exhaust.  Reminds me of times many years ago when I occasionally did work on diesel powered subs.

I have three that I use primarily.  Diesel, coal and oil.  I like them and the smell.  I can always tell the next morning if I ran trains for a while as my train room (aka basement) still smells of the smoke.  I find it refreshing.

Diesel coal and oil... I like what they do, but I'd rather smell White Castle fart.

Grape.  (which I normally don't like in a freshener scent as it's too sweet and fruity 🤔...go figure )

My advice is go with scents that are family and guest friendly over the realistic ones like coal, oil, etc.  I want my trains to look and sound as realistic as possible, but obnoxious smells I can do without.  After all, I'm trying to give the allusion of smoke, but it doesn't need to smell like real combustion.

@RickO posted:

Not an exact answer to your question but... I prefer more pleasant scents because smoke can really hang around in a train room and migrate to other places in the house. Maybe I'm just a wuss LOL!

Having said that, after experiencing coal burning steamers NKP 765 and PM 1225 the coal scent does indeed smell like a coal fired steamer, minus the cinders falling out of the sky of course

I agree a wuss LOL  remember you said and I am just agreeing.

Megasteam rocks scent are very accurate but if I want to smell BBQ I will make or go eat it. I find the fufu scent to be annoying but others luv them each to there own. I just feel running a coal fired steamer with clove coming out the stack is a sacrilage.

I actually enjoy exhaust scents. Diesel and jet fuel exhaust are my favorites. I know it's weird, but that is me. Just like the sound of a large turbo diesel engine or the sound of a high by-pass turbo fan engine are nice to me.

I bought the Diesel and oil-fired steamer on the bay last night, so next week I'll get to see if the hype is real.

My wife is not a fan of the smoke smell. I will get some of the other non-exhaust scents later on for her benefit. One of the returns for the central unit on the end of the house that my train room is on is in my train room. I am certain after a few minutes of one of those MTH fan units smoking up the house I will have to shut it off unless I go with something more pleasant and wife friendly.

@Shawn_Chronister posted:

I agree a wuss LOL  remember you said and I am just agreeing.

What do you expect from a grown man that plays with toy trains 

I use apple

I guess I can hardly say "ew", I kinda liked the smell of TurboBlue and other high octane fuels. 

With all of the scent mentioned above, I think I might try the diesel one. And I’ll get another one that is wifey friendly. 

"I smell train!" My wife would say whenever she came home from bingo or shopping.  I've smelled the Mega-Steam coal scent and it's pretty accurate to my old nose. I'm curious about the oil burning steamer scent but I wouldn't buy a bottle because if it's realistic it should smell like NSFO (Navy Standard Fuel Oil) and I breathed enough of that aroma as "stack gas" aboard the old USS Coral Sea (CV-43).