Smell receptors in our body can be very powerful and can bring back vivid nostalgic memories of the past. This thread mean nothing if most of Sajhaites don't participate but could be very interesting if we hear from many. I will start with a few and see where it goes:

- that pungent, burning fuel smell of fully loaded blue 'Vikram' tempo pulling itself through the hill of Bijuli Bazzar
- the smell of roadside 'poleko makai' while walking along the streets of bagbazzar and rantna park
-smell of 'patakas' and 'malta barud' during tihar
-smell of peeling oranges and 'bhogate' while sitting around on a 'sukul' with family on a warm saturday afternoon

lets hear some more, shall we?

what an apt topic for the day bedrock :). Incase, u didn't hear the unraveling of the mystery of sense of smell landed the nobel prize in medicine today. It is thought that the average human can distinguish up to 10,000 different odors. Isn't that JHAKASS??

For more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3713134.stm
Now for the nostalgic ones:

- can't beat that "tori ko tel" my maami used to massage my heads in the nights
-The fragrance of parijaat in the mornings.
-Momos and cheula's sweet odor while walking on the streets.
- those sandalwood and dhoops in the mandirs.
-"pakku masu" in dashain and "selroti & anarasa" in tihar

Damnnn! how the hell did i get myself in this quicksand??? more laterz!

indra kamal phul.

onions frying and daal bhat cooking in the evening air.

my bahini burning agar bhatti every morning.

bad smells:
clogged charpis, crowded busses during the monsoon- wait, no EVERYTHING during the monsoon, a drunk man's raksi-breath

oys_ chills, no i didn't know about the nobel prize till i read your post. I posted this thread last night. What a connection!

to continue with the topic, this one scares the shit out of me:

- dettol and tinchur odor in the hospitals and clinics
- odor of fresh ink in the in-school exam question papers

fresh fragrance of marigold and supari flower around the time of dashain n tihar.

-the smell of dashain, there's like this dashain smell man, in the air, wheneve dashain comes , its like crazy
-the smell of fresh pack of cards , when ever we open a fresh pack of playing cards
-the smell of vodka in cabin restaurants with frenz
-the smell of my mom making yomari
-smell of chhweelaa and kachi laa and baraa
-smell of new pair of shoes
-smell of my new car (yeah rite, i wish)
-smell of that indian store
-n finally the smell of his fart, my best fren ubae'z after he ate his mom'z sungoor ko mashu (urrrrrrrghhhhh the worst fart eve dawg)

How about that smell of tika, mala and sagun (fruit), when you were departing from Nepal for the first time and that first smell inside the plane. Oh I miss Nepal.....

how about the smell of garbage in every street corner?

hey bedrock by the way its actually called olfactory receptors!!!!!!!!!not smell receptors....it originates in the olfactory mucuos memrane and then is transmitted to the uncus in the brain (part of the frontal lobe)...got it!

hey abyss213- don't try to lecture me. I am speaking common language for general people to understand. People from all levels of intellegence come here not just rocket scientists like you. So don't try to preach me saying "Got it". Smart Ass.

--Smell of flowers( SayaPatri ,I think) during Dasai/Tihar

--Smell of festival food prepared by my grandmother ( Damn those rotis were sick!!)

--Smell of new notes...Man, they smell good anywhere

---Smell of freshly cut grass in my school..

And wait did I mention...Smell of local weed?...yummmmy kidding .

loser u do weed, badddddd boy, now share some with me too ;) kidding!

I miss the smell of mandir, we went to this mandir and it was sooooo clean, not a speck of prasad spilling over, man I was soooooo disappointed. I used to lop it when granpa came from mandirs, he used to give us this sweet prasads and coconuts, miss that.

Also miss the smell of mithais in New Road in front of Bishal Bazar, what is that place called? And miss the smell of gutpak coming out of gutpak bhandar. Miss the whole smell of New Road, my homeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!

Miss the smell of Danie our labrador puppy.

i can smell the momo all the way over here. Ye sauji, malai 1/2 plate dinuss ta

Anybody for dilliBazaar area? What about galli that head towards Gyaneswor..and there was one corner we used to called it TEL KHANNI..Myaannn..it was literraly a restroom..
I recall smell from tukucha and dhobi kholaaa....And that dangor of waste at thamel chowk..

The smell while walking into a barber shop on a early sunny saturday morning is unbeatable, i think its combination of after shave, talc, aggarbatti, soap etc. etc.

good one, bedrock!
the smell of a clean person who has used lux sabun and sunsilk shampoo.
the smell of dalchini in chiya and khir....

The smell of monsoon rain and mouldy verandahs. My dogs with their stinky wet fur and wagging tail. Smell of Henna on my hands and hair mixed with the pungent smell Dabur amala ko tel. Smell of hing and timur and lapsi ko achar.

Smell of BIREY NOON

Body odour - how often did you guys used to shower when in Nepal - don't lie

Smell of smelly socks and feet

Smell of ghew chaku

Smell of whiskey in your fathers breath

Sometimes you needed good negotiation skills to take shower in Nepal. Due to water scarcity, it happens to be your brother or sister's shower turn and you had to come up with excuses like you have a hot date or something. Sometimes you just had to settle for washing the head only. Don't take water for granted is a lesson to be learned.

Getting back to the topic of smell. When you were in that 14-15 years old and you get to smell a good looking girl showered with Lux and Sunsilk with Dabar Kesh Oil and you would go like this...

Smell of "Bhuteko Makai" on a rainy day.

Smell of Kathmandu's streets (a mixture of garbage, dust, tempo smoke, sweat, burning tires, sekuwa corners, and so much more)

DP