Sniff up some fumes and get ready for a brain cell party.
Yes, those sleeping memories from long ago will wake up and bounce and crash around your head as you close your eyes and let that salty-sweetness take you back to Kindergarten.
Fade to black and remember slightly greasy hands with bits in the fingernails, remember mixing all the colors together until they turned purple-brown, remember rolling out lots of cold lopsided worms, and remember the taste-test incident that resulted in a mouth full of salty chalk.
People, now there’s even a cologne to capture that smell for the ladies, so feel free to get your nostalgia on strong and spray down, my friends.
Yes, that smell of Play Doh takes us way back to the old school. If you’re sniffing up what we’re putting down, then you’re an old fool, who’s so cool. If you wanna get back, let us show you the way.
Whoomp, there it is.
Lemme hear you say.
AWESOME!
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28 Comments
June 25, 2009 at 12:20 am
Wow does that bring back memories. Vivid memories. Good clean awesome fun!
June 25, 2009 at 1:01 am
#735: The taste of Play-Doh. Don’t tell me I’m not the only one who did that.
Fresh Play-Doh out of the can is the way to go. And I KNEW you couldn’t leave out the cologne.
June 25, 2009 at 10:10 pm
“Fun to play with, but not to eat.”
Why do they make something taste so good if they don’t want you to eat it?
June 25, 2009 at 1:07 am
the smell of Play-Doh gives me a migraine
June 25, 2009 at 7:33 am
This makes me sad for you.
June 25, 2009 at 7:40 am
My favorite was the Play-Doh spaghetti maker tool.. Awesome!
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July 2, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Chris, that was the best. Did yours get clogged up with rock-hard Play-Doh crumbs, too?
June 25, 2009 at 8:41 am
AWESOME! I love Play-Doh and though I cannot remember the last time I was even near Play-Doh I totally know how awesome the smell is. Great one!
June 25, 2009 at 10:26 am
yeah, even though we were only allowed to have play-dough once or twice in my childhood (it was so messy, and we liked to dig it into the carpet)….it is one of those things that will remain in my mind forever…totally AWESOME!
July 2, 2009 at 10:20 pm
Janna, you gotta Google up the recipe and whip up a batch of that childhood bliss.
June 25, 2009 at 2:46 pm
I work in a preschool and am thus lucky enough to smell this fantastic smell on a daily basis. The best though… is the very first time a can is opened. Nothing beats that.
July 2, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Daily Play-Doh smell? Topped only by fresh can fumes? Kim, can we SWITCH LIVES?
June 25, 2009 at 4:29 pm
Try making your own play-doh, koolaid mix, flour, salt and a little water……..edible!
July 2, 2009 at 10:21 pm
Can you throw it in the oven and make some Play-Doh bread? Keep in mind I don’t know how to cook when answering.
June 25, 2009 at 4:54 pm
I think I remember disliking the smell of Play-doh, but I bet a whole flood of nostalgia would come back to me if I gave it a whiff. Smells do that better than anything else.
June 25, 2009 at 8:42 pm
The board game Cranium brought back Play-doh in a big way for my household.
June 26, 2009 at 3:16 am
So AWESOME!
But alas, they’ve changed the wonderful taste into something… less desirable. I remember taking a nibble or two when I was younger, and recently just got my hands on a new can. Same smell, not so same taste :[
June 26, 2009 at 3:43 am
wait, kate gosselin said this same thing on j&k+8 this week!
July 11, 2009 at 10:47 pm
No, seriously. Stick to prose.
September 12, 2009 at 7:56 am
That’s truee! it’s so good to smell play doh. Lol how can you remember this stuff?! thank you for sharing! i almost can smell it now :D
October 24, 2009 at 3:57 am
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November 23, 2009 at 11:03 pm
nostalgia
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March 6, 2010 at 6:10 am
I love the smell too. It brought back old memories and also “silly putty”. Similar smell. Can anyone remember? You could mould it, bounce it & get prints from newspaper by rolling it over.
May 6, 2010 at 5:44 pm
Omg, yeah, silly putty! Now that brings back some awesome memories <3
April 24, 2010 at 8:49 pm
Omg it smells amazing!!!!!
April 24, 2010 at 8:54 pm
OMG! that is sooooooooooooo true ! Gotta love play doh..
May 28, 2010 at 3:08 pm
Gosh, I thought I was the only one who felt that way! My friends all think I’m crazy for loving the smell of Play-Doh… Pssh to them.