'New York, Phew York: A Scratch-N-Sniff Adventure' Book Looking For Funds On Kickstarter (VIDEO)

Longtime New York City concierge Amber C. Jones has started a Kickstarter in support of a children's book project, "New York, Phew York: A Scratch-N-Sniff Adventure".

In a "fun tale of a family's trip to the city/ A scratch and sniff guide of the good and the gritty" the book aims to capture all the scent-sational smells of Gotham, including "Garbage, Pizza, Hot dogs, Sewer steam, Fish, Churros, Peanuts, Horse Manure, Shish-kabobs, Smoke, Bagels, Grass, Piragua Ice Cone, Pickles, Pastrami, and More!"

And although the book, which includes colorful illustrations from Tim Probert, is being sniffed out by publishers everywhere, few are willing to fund an expensive scratch-n-sniff project. Scents, it turns out, have to be custom made. And that's where Kickstarter comes in.

With 7 days left, New York, Phew York has raised $15,283 of its $20,000 goal. If they don't reach 20,000 by the end of those 7 days, the project won't get its funding.

So if you remember how much fun scratch-n-sniff stickers were as a kid, or if you think the NYC's scents need to be shared with the world (except for maybe that one block in the Lower East Side) go here to donate.

What smells do you think should be included in the book? Write below.

[VIA Laughing Squid]

Comments

[Steve Kniffen]

12:01 AM on 10/08/2011

Both my kids got very sick and infected from a Christmas story book that had smells in it. .I like the idea of this book but I wanted to share a bad experience about books that have scratch and sniff chemicals that can be used to make things smell.The doctor told me about there are many people that get sick and are allergic to chemicals used to make a lot of different fragrances. Evidently there is a right way and a wring way to make these things and I got the wrong way. Scratch and sniff is not perfume but many people are allergic to perfume also and they can be made with fragrances that might smell good be bad for you. I don't know anything about this book at all but hopefully but wanted people to know what happened.

[Nelle]

02:25 PM on 08/10/2011

And how would you describe the subway station smell...honestly?

[michaleenflynn]

08:17 PM on 08/09/2011

Hope the carriage horse manure is presented as one of the "good" smells, a little bit of country in the city.

[DanielAdler]

01:57 PM on 08/09/2011

Bushwick smells like hipster's B.O. and, of course, really good pizza. http://danielryanadler.com/2011/07/23/heatwave-in-bushwick/