Smell associated with sports physicals

In junior high school I received sports physicals in the boys locker room of my school. A local doctor would come there for several hours and perform physicals for 7-12 graders. A nurse would occupy one of the coaches offices and do some preliminary checks (fully clothed), and the doctor occupied another office where the main exam was conducted. (This office had a small window, but it was rather high on the door so the next boy seated on the bench outside the office waiting to be examined could not see what was taking place inside. No effort was made to ever cover the window. With the sounds of the locker room you also couldn't really hear what was taking place inside that office.)

One of my distinct memories is the smell associated with the locker room on those days. I haven't been able to identify it, but walking in for my first physical it was very noticeable. I wasn't sure at the time it was related, but in subsequent years when I had additional physicals the same smell greeted me. Unlike other threads discussing the clinical smell, I don't think this odor was related to any kind of cleaning supplies or disinfectant. It didn't appear that any kind of cleaning of the locker room occurred in preparation for the physicals. I assume it must have come from some of the equipment the doctor brought which could have carried the clinical smell with it. The odor lingered for a couple of weeks afterwards, so between that and seeing the door to the office where the doctor did the intimate exam memories came flooding back every time I would get dressed for gym class or sports practices for those couple of weeks.

I've been in a lot of locker rooms and they all smelled . I'm not sure what you smelled since anything would evaporate quickly. Maybe it was the nurses perfume!

I've been in a lot of locker rooms and they all smelled

I sure agree with that. I remember the smell of my high school locker room, which was a mix of mildew and body odor! It's strange that you experienced this strange smell during those sports physicals. I have no clue what it might have been if it wasn't alcohol or something else used to clean and sanitize instruments.

It seems to me that there was always a particular smell in a nurse'office at school, it was a mixed of various smells and among them certainly that of ether but also others linked to medical equipments or may be perfumes of the nurse or of the woman doctor.

I have been summoned for a school physical examination each year of school at middle and high school and I had a good memory of that smel

We were never examined in the locker room but there was also a strong and specific odor in that space, may be like Jimmy Johnson said a mixed of mildew ( with the showers just on the back) and body odor and cleaners.

I must add that at the nurse' office, it was not really unpleasant such could be the smell of sweat in a locker room or worst that of dirty and wet socks which happened sometimes at the end of the day school before coming of the cleaning ladies, but it was very specific.