Nosetalgia is the first and only book of its kind in the world. And it literally stinks It has 14 nostalgic scratch-and-sniff spots to take you back.In the hyper-protective, safety-conscious world we live in, we can consider it a badge of honor that as kids we breathed in the deliciously noxious smells of damp mimeograph paper, model airplane glue, Wite-Out, rubber cement, Magic Markers, and Superelastic Bubble Plastic and lived to tell about it. Very few things transport you in time like your sense of smell. It is the oldest, most primal sense and the one most tied to memory. And while we can identify over 10,000 individual smells, it is still the most underappreciated of all our senses. The authors of Nosetalgia: The Smells That Take You Back present a way to help release stored and oft-forgotten childhood memories. This unique book features 96 pages of vibrant, full-color photos of a wide variety of items from the '50s, '60s, '70s, and '80s, from Lip Smackers to Odorama memorabilia. To complete the experience, there are 14 scratch-and-sniff scent spots, from menthol (recalling Vick's VapoRub) to coconut (Coppertone suntan lotion and the smell of pi a coladas) and a variety of bubblegums, perfumes, and colognes to help trigger smell memories for the reader. It is a scratch-and-sniff book for grownups who want to relive the glory days of their childhoods. People the world over continue to ride the wave of nostalgia that has swept the entire globe. Nosetalgia will be a coffee-table must-have. It is something people will flip through again and again and will tell their friends about.
I am a very "smell-oriented" person; odors can make or break situations for me. Therefore, I was really excited about finding this book. It was rather disappointing with only 10 scratch and sniff(S & S) places. Additionally, at least 9 of the 10 were ones you can still find easily. Herbal Essence Shampoo was my favorite since I haven't seen that around lately. However, I'm sure since I don't know how the S & S procedure is accomplished, it's probablyl much more difficult and costly than I would imagine. In spite of this, I did still have a lot of fun with the book and would recommend it to others for a slightly different trip down memory lane.
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