Smoke Scents

I haven't found too many that I dislike since my PW steamer is featured on thier web site I better say JT's Mega -Steam. One of my greatest trades the photo for a free bottle of smoke fluid.

 

The only one that I do not use because if messes with my asthma is the FIREPLACE sent.

I have tried a lot of different scents from Mega-Steam (just about finished off my bottle of Forest & Stream this past weekend).

 

I really like their Hot Chocolate scent.  My club has a long setup for the holidays and I go through at least a half of a big bottle of it every year in my scale Polar Express.  People recognize this scent immediately.

 

I also like the fruit scents - cherry, grape, peach, etc.

 

The only scent I don't like is vanilla, but I don't like that scent in anything except food.  If I can eat it, it doesn't bother me, and I don't think that steam engines are edible...

 

Andy

What smoke scents have you used and liked? ...

 

Real men of the 50's breathe ozone,  PW pellets, & grease.

 

Then again some of us who came of age in the late 60's & 70's can't wait until some of that locally grown green cash crop comes around again.

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(Come to think of it ... in the basements it was the latter that replaced the former way back then).  ...

I agree with Andy that Mega-Steam is a good choice and I particularly like there winter seasonal flavors. I have been exclusive to Mega-Steam for the past several years.

I like MTH Christmas scent. It may not be intended to have a scent as it is supposed to get rid of them, but whatever it puts out I like the JT Mega-Steam Eliminator.

I usually buy Mega Steams "Baking Bread". However it just doesn't have that baked bread smell I remember as a kid, when my Dad took me down to a local bakery that made hot and fresh Italian bread loaves usually on Saturday morning.   I guess there is no way to reproduce that memory!  I think, next time around I will take a tip from Andy and try the Hot chocolate

-Pete

 

I use and like the MTH smoke fluids. I use christmas on my freights and apple pie on my passenger trains. I do not like the candy cane because it actually smells like sugar dust.

Being a single hot blooded American male with all the natural urges that go along with it, I use JT’s Mega Steam Hot Chocolate. The Aphrodisiac effects of Chocolate cancel out the avoidance tendency triggered when a lady encounters the massive train display in my bedroom.  

Good point Matthew.

I'll have to try that. My wife is only tolerant of my train habit.

She does like the Christmas Pine from JT Megasteam. I use that on the Christmas layout so I can run smoke there.

In the main layout it's Coal fired Steamer which is not a nice smell, but an accurate one.

I also have Sawmill (sawdust) for the Sawmill going on the layout and am looking forward to some Forest and Stream and Campfire at the Amhearst show this weekend.

JT MegaSteam just works the best -- I like the Orange.  I live in an apartment and it is a safe sent.   

 

I tried the candy cane this christmas and was not fond of it, it quickly smells like burnt candy canes.

 

I tried the cinnamon last christmas and was very happy with it with no after odor like the candy cane.

 

Both sceents were Megasteam.

 

Tip of the bong brush to Between A&B, we're all waiting pal! As for my favorite smoke scent, it was the old Live Steam brand called Smokey Fir, alas lost to the ages, it's formula shrouded in mystery as old time forum members will attest to.Never to be duplicated, it apparently is gone for good.

I like th Nada scent and just bught the Eliminator to get some of the lingering factory scent out of a new diesel I just purchased

Smoke units are seldom turned on in the basement.  When they are, however, it would be the Christmas Pine during the holidays, Nada any other time.

 

Worst scent?   'Fried Electronics'!!!  Besides, when it occurs, it seldom comes out the smokestack, anyway!

 

My girls like JT's Hot Chocolate and Cranberry Woods.

Jeff, I'm adding your daughters to my prayer list, that they become immune to the side effects of the Chocolate scent during their formative years. 

 

mega Christmas pine and Grandpa's pipe

I always run locomotives with the smoke "ON," but I do not sense the various scents. Perhaps they are not odoriferous enough for my olfactory capabilities. So to me, a scent is a scent, and it makes no difference in my case.

 

Since I cannot differentiate the various smoke fluid scents, I cut each bottle of smoke fluid 50% by volume with "baby oil" (AKA mineral oil). Ironically, I can detect the scent of baby powder when running the baby oil - smoke fluid mixture.

 

The effect of the baby oil is to make the smoke fluid last longer by reducing the amount of vaporization. The resulting smoke vapor from my Rail King locomotives remains substantial, and enough to fog my 35-foot square basement in an hour or so.

 

Steam engines must have smoke, but the concept of the diesel-engined locomotive was no smoke. The smokeless fuel oil diesel isn't on the planet yet.

For the past 2 years I have used JT’s Mega Steam Hot Chocolate and really like it.  I have also used baking bread, but to me it does not smell like baking bread. 

 

I also like MTH's apple pie.  I used to like MTH's Christmas, but now it is too strong for me.  I have tried MTH's Candy Cane and Vanilla.  Vanilla was ok, but Candy Cane I did not care for.  Ken