Comments on: Epic Win: Scented Markers

By: ab.

ab. — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 07:21:00 +0000

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.

By: llamadude98

llamadude98 — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:27:11 +0000

Mangos are blue-green…….. huh.

By: Chelsea

Chelsea — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 21:29:36 +0000

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

By: Katharine

Katharine — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:00:32 +0000

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.

By: Hillbilly_Deluxe

Hillbilly_Deluxe — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:37:41 +0000

i think they quit making those because kids kept huffing them and getting high

By: llc

llc — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 20:41:09 +0000

reminds me of scratch and smell stickers.

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:29:06 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:29:57 +0000

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….

By: NinjaNina

NinjaNina — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 20:26:16 +0000

On the first day of Kindergarten i came home and the bottom of my nose was completely brown. Chocolate scented markers. Good times.

By: MarthaK

MarthaK — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:19:10 +0000

Heh, someone else remembers the chocolate scented one! I knew there was something wrong with that list.

By: Oki

Oki — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 08:30:35 +0000

And, lest we forget, getting our friends to smell them just so we could mark their nose.

By: HAHA

HAHA — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:32:15 +0000

epic win of a story right there.
the black one gives me a headache after too long

By: Saromo

Saromo — Thu, 21 May 2009 23:43:42 +0000

My older friend gave me hers.
Awesome (:

By: rebecca

rebecca — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 07:15:43 +0000

as dane cook said, the black one smelled like a bag of asses

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:39:42 +0000

marker sniffing addicts anonymous

By: Max

Max — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 07:30:14 +0000

YES! My pre school was built upon a love of those markers.

By: leslie

leslie — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:42:48 +0000

where one first learned about “huffing”

By: michikodesu

michikodesu — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:59:38 +0000

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!

By: Cal

Cal — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:29:21 +0000

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?

By: Stick

Stick — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 23:41:43 +0000

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.

By: k!k!

k!k! — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:36:51 +0000

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!!!”

By: yaya

yaya — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 01:19:00 +0000

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

By: ElleSees

ElleSees — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 02:16:20 +0000

The new ones don’t smell nearly as good as the one from the 80s did!!!

By: FooBunny

FooBunny — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 04:38:43 +0000

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!

By: sensible

sensible — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:26:54 +0000

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.

By: DragoxDugles

DragoxDugles — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 22:17:16 +0000

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…

By: Blargh

Blargh — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 22:07:35 +0000

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.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 18:35:42 +0000

because of these, i thought mangoes were turquoise until middle school…where scented markers were not allowed.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:03:34 +0000

What do you meditate on, your lack of appendicitis?

I mean, removing your appendix reduces your chance of appendicitis too…

By: Slick

Slick — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:45:43 +0000

they now have a chocolate scented marker, my art teacher has them I think, and by far they are my favorite scent.

By: Illysmanx

Illysmanx — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 11:28:53 +0000

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.)

By: stephmom

stephmom — Sun, 25 Jan 2009 01:41:15 +0000

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!

By: Cara

Cara — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 23:45:12 +0000

Dude! Green and Blue were always my favorite. Along with yellow!

By: Chicky82

Chicky82 — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 22:55:48 +0000

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!!!

By: wirewitch

wirewitch — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 19:01:41 +0000

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.

By: Rattus

Rattus — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:31:45 +0000

This.

By: Heather

Heather — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:07:33 +0000

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!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 07:46:00 +0000

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.

By: ceibell

ceibell — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 05:35:32 +0000

sniffing markers is a bad habit. then why do they make scented markers? hmmmm….
*SNIFF*
yum, cherry.

By: Chloe

Chloe — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:07:06 +0000

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….

By: wondercheese

wondercheese — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 23:54:52 +0000

I always had a multicolor tongue. When you’re 6 it stands to reason that if it smells good it MUST taste good too!

By: Jluve82

Jluve82 — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:44:10 +0000

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!

By: Jluve82

Jluve82 — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 22:42:38 +0000

That’s a really smart idea!

By: MmeChalice

MmeChalice — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:52:45 +0000

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.”

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:57:25 +0000

Everyone at my school loved them.

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:55:06 +0000

Ew, black was by far the worst!

By: TiminBoston

TiminBoston — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:11:01 +0000

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

By: SarcasticBastid

SarcasticBastid — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:19:31 +0000

This marker has shown me Jesus’ eyes.

By: nightlyeclipse

nightlyeclipse — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:46:36 +0000

Oh yes, the pink one was my favorite, followed closely by black.

By: Shalindria

Shalindria — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:44:26 +0000

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.