Hmm...very interesting.And exciting!Hmm what would be a good smell...

Oh and so it would have to be some..new smell you have never smelled before when you start playing?

A lot of people is getting this wrong, the question was, what kind of smell do you want skyrim to be associated with?
Note: emotions have a lot to say in this. A good idea would proporbly be to have the smell (tast and sound?) already at the start at the game, when everything is new and exiting.
they are doing the same thing i hypno therapy where you through a meditative state, gets sounds and colors to trigger a certain state of mind.
Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9c2l4oD5AY
Edit 2: the association really first come in part 2 and 4.

The smell of me not showering for a month?

thats a good question. I never would have thought about that. I honestly don't know.. Bethesda should add a scratch and sniff pamphlet to the game. :tongue:

Haha, wow, I thought I was the only one that had experienced this!!!

I used to play this game called Warlords Battlecry III (its a real time strategy), and at the time, my dad was going through this weird phase of burning incense sticks all over the house...
So now, when I think of that game, or smell those damn incense sticks, it reminds me of that game!!

As for what Skyrim will smell like... Probably stale cigarette smoke, I'll have moved into a house for my second year at university, and I just know its gonna reek of smoke!!!
Skyrim will make it all better though.

ewww I feel bad for those in line with you at the midnight release ;P lolz

Ozone and iron.

Nothing because why would I wait past the eleventh to get this game.

Ploppy poo poo

Blood leaking from my horribly disfigured dried up eye balls
no but really I might try some kind of sweet spice like cinnamon of ginger

But for super cerial. The smell I associated oblivion with was that fresh flower smell because that's what the fabric
softener my bed sheets had been washed with the day I got OB. I hammered it all day surrounded by the smell of a meadow in summer, kind of fitting I suppose. So I honestly don't know what smell it will be for skyrim I'll find out I guess

Too early to tell for me. Morrowind is popcorn and cold beer, Oblivion is fried shrimp. Seriously... Someone even mentions shrimp to me and I'm immersed back into the tutorial dungeon. :confused:

http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/nose-throat/smell3.htm

I don't understand how you could possibly think that this would only work on Christmas.

Everytime the fan on my PC kicks in i'm reminded of Oblivion, there's nothing like inhaling the toxic fumes of a burnt out power supply unit with subtle overtone of scorched plastic.

Skyrim will eventually have a different fragrance associated with it, probably deep fried graphics card with a hint of molten copper.

My skyrim will smell of me not showering for 12 months. Cuz that's how long we're waiting and posting on these forums.

Haha, the smell will only get worse as he (we) plays the game. As if you'd waste time showering when you could be playing Skyrim!

New plastic and nord sweat.

It will smell like awesome. For those of you who do not know what awesome smells like, it smells like Skyrim.

I usually associate things with music then smell. But its still a while off so we'll see.

Take your pc/laptop to your bathroom, get a fridge in there, sit in the toilet, turn the shower on, and get rollin'

Rich mahogany and leather bound books

Skyrim will smell of bacon, and coffee, and snow of course.

Mass Effect 3 will smell of watermelon, steak, and that awesome smell fireworks give off.

The clash of these two titans fighting shall bring about 2012's apocalpyse, and it shall smell glorious.

That is all.

:sick:

I completely relate to the OP with smells associated with certain memories. I had a similar experience with the smell of Cucumber melon and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets video game. Like the OP I got both for Christmas one year and the two are forever linked in my memory. However, I don't really think that "creating" a scent associated memory would work exactly the same as you would be making the association on purpose rather than by circumstance like the moment you first described.

Although, if you want to create a scent which you believe would help to immerse yourself in Skyrim then I say go for it. I actually find it very enjoyable to create these scent associated memories and try to capture that permanently. In fact, I make my own perfume and ritual oils and I have already come up with scents which I think you would run into in various places in Tamriel. And before anyone says I am crazy/ obsessed know that I came up with the scent before the association.

For example the Northern Knight oil which includes several types of pine, juniper, sandalwood, leather, cypress, ambergris, black musk and mint. This, to me, is a combination of scents you would probably encounter in Skyrim. Coincidentally, it is also one that my boyfriend loves to wear so... it is already a scent I personally associate with a lot of memories. So something like that, you could wear/ burn while playing, but again, it is a scent you would purposely be creating an association with, but I don't really think there is anything wrong with that.

Seasoned Bosmer over an open fire.