I was laying out on the front porch a while ago, about half asleep, and my mind wondered back, many years, trying to remember "scents" from my past.
Few will remember, but each year, in the spring, WALLPAPER CLEANER. I remember coming home from school, late 30's, open the door, to that aroma of wallpaper cleaner. That scent meant a lot of things ..... spring, summer, vacations, housecleaning, not that I did any in those days.
The cleaner came in a can, was pink, consistency of play doh, it was nothing more than a soft eraser. You would basically "erase" the coal dust and dirt off the wallpaper. The more you worked, the blacker the pink cleaner got. It was soft and playable. When you were done, the wallpaper looked new, and there was that lasting aroma in the air, of the wallpaper cleaner.
I'll have to look and see if they still have it, I would love to experience that fragrance again.
PS: A little reseaarch revealed that PLAY DOH was originally invented to be a wallpaper cleaner ... but, as I recall, the old wallpaper cleaner had more of a gritty texture to it.
