What Does College Smell Like?
Ah, the smells of college. So many come to mind (or at least the part of mind not destroyed by Barley Pop), when I think back on my seven years at IU. Yes, I said seven. There was a documentary based on it.
Anyway, the smells of cheep beer and vomit come to mind when recalling Little 500 weekends. And I recall the smells of smoke after a friend who will remain nameless accidentally set a dumpster on fire. I remember the smell of sweat and ditch weed as a couple of thousand people tried to cram into Jake’s to see the BoDeans on the Black and White tour. And finally the smell of saliva and old book that greets you when you wake up with your face in a 700 page brick about the U.S. Constitution that you started reading 3 days before the final exam.
Those are the smells you just can’t bottle. Check that, apparently you can. Masik College Fragrances is offering college themed perfumes and colognes. The first to hit shelves include Eau de Penn State and Eau de North Carolina. Six others will be released later this year. According to the AP:
“Masik Collegiate Fragrances says the perfume for the school in State College, Pa., smells of vanilla, lilac, rose and white patchouli. The cologne smells of blue cypress and cracked pepper.”
This begs the question of the female Citizens: would you date a guy that smelled like cypress and cracked pepper? Please, do share.
Carry on, Citizens!
December 1st, 2008 at 1:21 pm
Probably the most prominent scent of my 5.5 years plus two summers at IU (Take that, Stanger!) was from the years I spent delivering chicken wings and subs in what was at the time a brand new Camaro. So “Eau de IU” would have to be new car smell, mixed with bus exhaust fumes, buffalo sauce, fresh-baked sub bread, bleach from the dish sink, and the telltale scent of $@*%& fryer grease I dumped all down my pants while changing the filter.
Ahhh, I’m gettin’ all misty just thinkin’ about it.
December 1st, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Darrin,
Were those Buffalouie’s wings? I’ve been gone from B-Town for 8 years and I can still remember their phone # by heart. I’m getting vaklempt!
December 1st, 2008 at 5:37 pm
Yes, they were indeed. I was at the original store on 17th St. back in the late 80’s when “Mr. and Mrs. Louie” were still around and running things. I even still have my fashionable flourescent green T-shirt and health-department-mandated baseball cap, which are probably collectors items now.
Man, we need to road trip. It’s been over a decade since I last visited the alma mater.
December 1st, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Darrin,
The late 80’s? That’s when my addiction to the crack cocaine of appetizers began. You were probably my dealer you magnificent bastard!
Send me a photo of the hat and shirt and I’ll do a post on it! I think we should have the Seven Dead Flamingos release party at Buffalouie’s, for it represents all that was once good in America and can be again. Or was that the Field of Dreams. Anyway, you’ve earned a spot in our soon to be unveiled Citizens Hall of Fame!
Jeff
December 1st, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Not that I could still fit in it, but on the other hand, I can’t pawn it off on the AmVets or Goodwill either. I’m just not evil enough to lose this evil back on the world. (I’m like Jameson Parker in that John Carpenter movie where they had Satan trapped in a jar in the basement of that church.)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/djaysnider/3076085976/
December 1st, 2008 at 8:18 pm
What are the odds we would have a Prince of Darkness movie reference today? Didn’t Jameson Parker have the worst porn star moustache in that movie?
December 4th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
I think Eau de Indiana State will be the gag (literally) gift variety.