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You know the smell! The smell when you crack open a new Upper Deck pack! Fills me with a giddy hopefulness of finding a great card for my collection, or checking off cards for my set. This pack is going to be the one! The best of the bunch!

I have been working on a 1993 Upper Deck Football set and needed a pack wrapper to tape to the front of the box. Figured I could get one cheap on eBay. The difference between one regular foil pack and six jumbo foil packs was just a couple bucks so why not get a few? I'll only open the one I need and then I could always sell or trade the others. After all, my base set was finished and I only need some inserts... oh wait, that's right, these are JUMBO packs, 1 MVP per pack, and possibly find a Hero card! Well I'll open another, it might have an MVP instead that I need. It did! That was it, all six were opened. That smell! It has been a long time since opening Upper Deck packs! 
 

Off to eBay again! Bought a sealed box of Comic Ball IV to open with the kids...  it's happening again!

I feel the same way with modern Topps cards, and even ones from the Junk Wax Era (which to me is never junk, by the way). I know that within that sometimes musty-smelling stack of cards, there is undoubtedly sentimantal gold.

Panini never will compare... :)

Pfft...you young'uns.  The smell of card collecting is a combination of cardboard (obviously), wax, and rock hard bubble gum...

dont forget the smell of old vintage cards you buy off sports lots.  

You can almost smell the yellow in the top loader. 

Oh I know the joy of the powdered sugar hard as plastic stick of gum that then dissolves into a goo in your mout.

Thanks for bringing back those good memories, Gatorade96!

I remember that Upper Deck smell in 1989 with the baseball set, for sure. The foil wrapper was different, the cards inside felt different, the team hologram stickers that came in each pack—as low quality as the first ones turned out—looked different. It was a pretty fun time to be a young collector. I might have to pick up some Upper Deck packs from the early '90s now, too.

I love the smell of a big box of cards. It's awesome and brings me right back to happier times. 

I also love the smell of water boiling. Brings me back to when I was a kid. 

2000-01 Fleer Futures Basketball - Trading Card Database (tcdb.com) smells like Vicks Vapo-Rub. 

I remember the smell of tobacco when I opened a pack of Piedmont smokes to get a T206 card.

Young whippersnapper!  I remember back in the day the smell of the original Allen and Ginter tobacco.  Yeah, those were the days.

I just opened a box of 1980 Fleer Team Stickers.  I've got your rock hard bubble gum.