Oh, wow - you are not kidding. Fair Radio was "ground-zero" for those smells.
I sometimes catch a whiff of it in a good Army-Navy Surplus Stores if they have some vintage equipment on hand. An example is Skycraft Surplus in Orlando, Florida.
For some time in Wisconsin, I had a BC-221 frequency meter opened up in my small auxiliary shop in my work-from-home office - smelled very nice. When I finished the project, I left a tray holding the removed vintage parts which acted like an air freshener or potpourri for me.
I was retrofitting the BC-221 with a modern QRP Labs transceiver and 50 watt PA...
Someone had already partially gutted that particular freq meter, so don't get too upset at the sacrilege.
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Mein Ohr ganz nah am Weltempfänger...