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Submitted by A Trammel
Who doesn’t love a scented marker? These were always a treat when your teacher would bust out Mr. Sketch for art time! Much better than the Design Markers that some of us ended up with later on. Those were NOT to be used in an enclosed space for an extended period. Bad, bad things would happen. Just sayin’.
Here’s a handy color/scent chart in case you’ve forgotten the awesome:
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Enjoy your meal!
Did you know that meditation for just fifteen minutes each day reduces your chance of appendicitis?
What do you meditate on, your lack of appendicitis?
I mean, removing your appendix reduces your chance of appendicitis too…
As a teacher, we can always tell when a kid has Mr. Sketch markers: the student has multicolored dots on the underside of their nose!
We had them when i was in JR Kindergarten. I can’t seem to find them in any stores these days thou….
I found them at a Micheal’s (Michaels?) Hobby store a year or two ago.
>_> (Sniffing one now!)
sniffing markers is a bad habit. then why do they make scented markers? hmmmm….
*SNIFF*
yum, cherry.
lmao. I still do that.
My teacher and I got in quite a debate on whether or not the Lt.’s where having a love triangle.
It was epic.
I argued Lt. Blue and Lt.Green where in an affair without Lt.Banana Split.
She argued for me to color the tree and shut up.xD
Maybe we where just all high on Lt.Banana Split.
Using these as a kid that’s what I remember too, the dots under my nose after I used them.
Scented markers are the best!
I always had a multicolor tongue. When you’re 6 it stands to reason that if it smells good it MUST taste good too!
6? One of the school bullies in Junior High did it when he was 14. He kinda lost his edge after we watched him do that.
I wish I could still buy these, but I haven’t seen them anywhere. They were awesome. My English teacher had a few of them last year for making posters and such. (This was in 12th grade, mind you.) I colored the front of my notebook with purple and orange stripes. It smelled like grapes and oranges. ^_^
If you click on the photo source, you go to a site you can order from. But the shipping via UPS is more than the markers (and via USPS not much better).
I *LOVE* these markers!!! The turquoise one smelled the best. Now that I know it’s mango, I’m slightly confused…mango’s aren’t turquoise…but I digress. Kids in my elementary school would argue over the pink and turquoise ones.
ah, childhood.
Oh yes, the pink one was my favorite, followed closely by black.
Ew, black was by far the worst!
epic win of a story right there.
the black one gives me a headache after too long
Ohh too funny!! I still have some at my desk, but just the blue, purple, brown and green. They still work and smell..that is some potent stuff, LOL!!
aww yeah. i love these. I *had* a set of these last year but my dog found them tempting and chewed them up. BTW you can find these at Staples.
“Who doesn’t love a scented marker?”
People like me who get sneeze attacks from artificial scents, that’s who.
That’s how I know they’re still around and available – so many trainers hand them out at professional development sessions for people to use and I end up sneezing my head off!
Fun for the first minute or so anyway…
Is it me or are their 2 pinks.. Melon and Bubble Gum?
*there, sorry
One out of 20,000 uses isn’t bad..
The art teacher at my first Elementary school had these. I always ended up making some ridiculously over-colored picture, just so I could use all of the colors.
Except black. Eff the black marker. I hate licorice. That is a candy only the Devil could enjoy. Blech!
I’m with ya on the licorice hate. Good n Plenties? Um… no thanks.
Were the scented markers something mostly girls loved? I thot they were great – but my sons, not so much.
Everyone at my school loved them.
Agreed! No one in any of my classes growing up water the yucky black one!
Hehehe.. Maybe just a good way to keep most from overusing black? Really though, licorice is the only ‘black’ fruit or candy I can think of, other than black raspberries (what the heck are those things called anyways?) or mulberries, and I doubt many folk would know that scent very well. (Yum, mulberry trees, but they always had those little green bugs in them.. >.<; That would always end my snacking-sessions.)
Man, I loved sniffy markers so much… lol, if I could, I’d vote for them twice! Ah, my misspent youth…
Licorice is a terrible, terrible thing. And I am now definitely going to get some of these, I forgot how much I liked them….
Oh, and Wimple, maybe girls liked them more because women are more affected by smell…
Awww, what happened to my avatar?
Whenever I used multiple colors in one picture, the smell was…much less pleasant.
I finally used these things too much and stopped liking them at all.
I love how these taught kids to sniff markers. It’s not a good thing when they move on the Sharpies. They’re still amazing, though.
Yeah, I never really liked them for that reason, either, even when I was a kid. Also, a lot of scented stuff gives me a headache, so I avoid them for that reason, too.
I remember having a substitute teacher who freaked out on some kids who were sniffing scented markers, because she thought they were trying to get high.
I can still smell them!
My grandmother had these and my sister and I would love to pull them out to smell them. Who cares if they colored – we just wanted to sniff the marker!!!
I had that exact set as in the picture, cherry was always my favorite!
When I was a kid, all we had were red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black and brown ones. The only scent I remember is that the red was cherry……ah, that cherry was like sniffing heaven.
turquoise = mango? wtf?
This.
I can’t believe these are legal. They’re gateway markers! Just like bubblegum cigarettes!
Someone stole my magenta marker. This may have been 20 yrs ago but I still want it back -_-
I killed wayyy too many brain cells on these things…and I still have a full set at home that my sister and I use whenever we want to get in touch with our inner six-year-old selves
sniffy markers FTW!
I brought some of these for my color-blind son when he was in kindergarten. It seemed only fair to let him use an extra sense to tell the colors apart.
That’s a really smart idea!
Oh god. I haven’t used these since probably the 5th grade (and I won’t mention how long ago that was
and I can STILL smell them as if it were yesterday. Scent memory is a funny thing.
Wasn’t there a chocolate scented brown one too, or am I just delusional?
Just the other day, the teacher in my college wanted us to make name “tents” so she could call us by name in our new class. Anyway, she had bins of markers and some of them were scented….but not like Mr. Sketch…..the grape on was called ‘Black Eye’……very odd…
The blueberry was my favorite! Epic Nostalgia win!
i heard the dane cook thing the other day
they don’t smell like a bag of asses, though
This marker has shown me Jesus’ eyes.
I tried to post the link to that here, but it didn’t show up.
I totally think it smells like a bag of asses!
My local Ben Franklin craft store also carries these. I bought them to add to a kid’s craft bin and the kids got a kick out of them. So did their parents
I remember trying to use them for perfume.
I used to save all of my money to go buy these at the fancy art store. They were like $20 and that was expensive to an 8 year old! Then I guarded them like a hawk….
Maybe I need some new ones. My favorite was the grape!
How many times did you have this conversation growing up…
smell this
no
aww come on
no
i wont shove it up your nose
no!
i promise
*sigh* fine!
SHOVE
laughter by the shover with smelly marker
lol this is what poped into my head when i seen these today
Oh my God, LOVED those. But as Dane Cook aptly put it, the black one smelled like an asshole.
I don’t know where they’re getting them, but every one of my college profs has these, and uses them. I hate them
Light blue and orange were the best. Hands down.
Yay! Markers, one of the best things ever! It was so much fun to draw with the big @ss markers.
I must be the only person who didn’t hate the black one. I think it smells good. I do like black licorice though…
Also, I want to throw in that I didn’t have all those special flavors like Bubble gum and Mango. Wtf??? I live in Canada so maybe that’s it but now I’m kind of pissed off. I wanna smell the special ones!!!
Um, my favorite was probably grape. But I also like the orange and the light blue one. And lemon. It was refreshing.
you can buy them at Staples or online at staples.ca for $9.72 for the 12 pack
I’m going to go find them this weekend yay!! I loved the cotton candy one so much so that while a was a teen I wore cotton candy perfume, I hated the black one, yuck!
I think the light blue is the “turquoise”, which is the mango. which, in my opinion, smelled nothing like an actual mango, but more like concentrated awesome.
Sadness the color chart is wrong.
Light Pink= Watermelon
Magenta= Rasberry
‘Teal’ or light blue=Mango
No light yellow or peach in the orignal pack.
Many years ago (1984?) we gave our 8 year old son an 8 pack of scented water based markers as a stocking stuffer that Christmas. He was allowed to open the stocking gifts before we were awake and at about 6:15 A.M. he came into our bedroom and woke is up to show us that he had discovered that the markers each had a special smell. We knew that he’d been investigating the markers for a while because there were about 50 multicolored dots scattered about the tip of his nose.
Ah, my first experience with psychedelics… I swear, you can get high huffing the red marker.
My favorite was always the mint one.
omg i remember these, and i also remember my moronic friends trying to get high off the really stinky “non scented” markers, how silly we all once were at those tender, non fully educated ages
^ Totes on the high thing: My big sister asked my mom once, years ago: “Ask Mom if we can go sniff Alexis’ (a friend’s) [scented] markers” LOLZ…
OMG the drug store in town used to sell them individually and whenver I got a perfect grade or scored a goal I was allowed to have one as a “good job” treat. Favorites were Green, Blue, and Orange. MMHMMM
My mom would get these for her 4-year-old class when she was a preschool teacher. I would always “test” them on the sly before she took them in. I’m told the kids would go home with multicolored noses the first few days of school. I think my favorites were pink (watermelon), orange, brown, turquoise (I had no idea what a mango was, but I thought it smelled great!), and green.
I agree, licorice ain’t for everyone (myself included); I don’t mind the smell, but I never could stand the taste. My husband. however, adores the stuff, the stronger the better. He pops a couple nibs after smoking one of his occasional cigars — says it’s the best for getting rid of “ashtray mouth.”
LOVED these!!! I had the skinny ones though, not the fat ones… I liked the combined smell of ALL of them after using them all on the same picture….
I LOVED these markers. I think they were instrumental in my career as an artist now. I always had to keep them in their specific color order, or all was not right with the world.
I had these as a kid. I can remember exactly what they smelled like! They were the best markers. And I remember thinking I was something special having those, because no one else in my class had them! I wish I had some now!
I remember getting the licorice scented black because the “real” markers made me nauseated – and I also had a pale pink STRAWBERRY scented one that I used for a hilighter – this was in hs – 78-82.
Does anyone else remember strawberry? It was purchased individually, not in a set.
I bought these today at Staples
there is only 12 in it and no cotton candy all fruit with the dreaded licorice and the cinnamon one. I’m going to have a sniffing party tonight!!!
Dude! Green and Blue were always my favorite. Along with yellow!
Loved these, but they lost a bit of the glow when I was REQUIRED to buy them for my daughter’s first grade school supplies. I FINALLY found them at Office Depot, but the little buggers cost nearly eight bucks!! Sheesh!
they now have a chocolate scented marker, my art teacher has them I think, and by far they are my favorite scent.
Heh, someone else remembers the chocolate scented one!
I knew there was something wrong with that list.
because of these, i thought mangoes were turquoise until middle school…where scented markers were not allowed.
My job still has these markers, the exact kind that are in the pic. And I work for a Mutual Fund company. No wonder the market is doing so well…wait, oh…
my friend carries a cherry one in her purse at all times.
I drew on the sidewalk with it. I wonder if the ground still smells like cherry.
Oh I miss these. I used to hate the grape smelling one. I always gave it away to my friends. Licorice was my favorite, and so was bubble gum.
I miss them!
The new ones don’t smell nearly as good as the one from the 80s did!!!
im going to buy those markers and + were do they sell them at and i like those markers and 1 is that they smell 2 is that i like the colars that r in there 3 is that it looks like it is fun to use
my little brother used to come home everyday with a multicolored nose.. i finally asked him “wtf is wrong with your nose?!” and he responded, rather gleefully “we got scented markers at school!!!”
There was a girl in my class who thought all markers were sented. One day she came upon one of “those” markers and was stopped by the teacher during P.E. SHe wasn’t all there.
Oh oh oh! I still have some in my closet. The original ones not the ones with gum and such. Is anyone else a fan of cherry?
I would pitch a fit if these markers weren’t part of my school supplies!! I loved the skinnier ones, that way I could fit them all into my huge pencil box.
My fav was the pink and turquoise also…….okay, I totally had no idea that it was mango!! It just smelled good!
where one first learned about “huffing”
YES! My pre school was built upon a love of those markers.
marker sniffing addicts anonymous
as dane cook said, the black one smelled like a bag of asses
My older friend gave me hers.
Awesome (:
And, lest we forget, getting our friends to smell them just so we could mark their nose.
On the first day of Kindergarten i came home and the bottom of my nose was completely brown. Chocolate scented markers. Good times.
my teacher in grade 3 had these. unfortuately she took them away after only 2 weeks because at art time we would just smell the markers and not actually get any work done. in grade 7 a kid in my class tried to get high off them. the best one is bright pink. good times….
I forgot about this set of markers years ago and I swear that, after reading this blurb about them, I could smell each individual marker as I looked at the color chart.
reminds me of scratch and smell stickers.
i think they quit making those because kids kept huffing them and getting high
I think my cousin had a set that smelled like camping about ten years ago. I think the campfire really stunk and they had a pink one for calamine lotion. I’m pretty sure I’m remembering that right, but the whole thing sounds strange.
I only thing I remember about the “original” set is that the licorice smelled bad. I also remember the newer sets having blue raspberry.
I remember these! They had them in a few day care centers I went to before I went to kindergarden. I can remember the smell of the purple and brown ones – the brown ones were my favorite. I kind of want to color with some right now xD
Mangos are blue-green…….. huh.
the lemon one was scented crack. everyone in the class would question why they couldn’t have a yellow sun or duck when little did they know myself and another friend would run off with it and sit in the corner sniffing at it. it took a long time before any adult informed us of why sniffing the markers directly was not a good idea – not that it was a dissuasion. as an adult (technically), i still buy these. they even are of a decent quality, this coming from someone who constantly uses over-expensive art markers.