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I want a McDonald's. There's something specific about the smell of mcdonalds food in the bag, like a mix of grease, beef, potatoes, and recycled paper products that make me feel like a heroin user getting the first hit of the day

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[–] Nemo@slrpnk.net 18 points 3 months ago (1 children)

buttery fried eggs and toast

old pine cabin on a rainy day

art classroom

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 3 months ago

Upvote for art classroom- that's a great idea, and if that candle exists then I need it

[–] monovergent@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 months ago

Gasoline. Would kill to have a scent like it without the cancer risk.

steam deck vent smell

[–] FritzApollo@lemmy.today 9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Lantana, burnt diesel, petrichor, mango sap.

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 2 points 3 months ago

Ugh I love the smell of lantana πŸ’š

[–] spykee@lemmings.world 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Petrichor is available as perfumes. Spray it where you fancy and bob's your uncle.
For your mango kink, go test Wanted By Night By Azzaro. To me, it smells like mango leaves/mango seed, ymmv.

[–] Jobe@feddit.org 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Fog machine fluid. Love that smell. (I realise I could just get a fog machine, but it's funnier as a candle.)

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

Smells like maple syrup to me

[–] Aeao@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

When you have a lot of McDonald’s in the car it smells like actual garbage.

[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Not when I'm stoned!

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I smelled a tomato one the other day. That kind of weedy vine smell. Loved it.

[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

The green part of the tomato? The stem and such? Lovely, amazing scent.

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Umm... Tomato Vine scented candles already exist and are pretty popular.

https://www.etsy.com/market/tomato_vine_candle

Yeah they said they smelled one the other day……

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

They asked β€œnon-traditional”, but I’ll let you have it. You knew tomato candles before me! Woah!

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Bakery/the smell bread makes while it's rising.

[–] RoquetteQueen@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Actually you can buy that. I got mine from Country Home Candle I think it was called? Small Canadian company, but they all buy scent oils from the same places so you can probably find that scent from a business local to you.

[–] ICCrawler@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Firework sulphur

[–] basilisa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

New car scent

[–] VirtigoMommy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Some strains of weed

Blood and smoke

Unburnt Cigarettes

Gasoline

Dirt

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Durban poison smells amazing

[–] happydoors@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Metal AF my brother

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] mangaskahn@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

I love unboxing some new tech, but why an access point specifically?

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 4 points 3 months ago

Wrong kind of access point...

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[–] Xanadu@feddit.online 5 points 3 months ago

Petrichor...

[–] _deleted_@aussie.zone 4 points 3 months ago

Vegemite. That first heady whiff of yeast and salt when you open a new jar.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago (2 children)
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[–] lauha@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

Coffee, but not that traditional mocca smell which smells like nothing natural but the smell of fresh bag of coffee beans

[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago

Tea.

That smell of a freshly opened container of black tea leaves is lovely.

[–] Sybilvane@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

That's just Frankincense

[–] limer@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago

New computer scent

[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago

Hockey rink

[–] EurekaStockade@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago

Just scrape out the bottom of the deep fryer and put a wick in in, boom McCandle

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I would use cigarettes as incense if it were safe and didn't leave a permanent stank

[–] TheReanuKeeves@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I was just shopping for essential oils and saw tobacco there

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 months ago

I actually don't like the smell of tobacco, oddly enough. I just like the way cigarette smoke smells lol

[–] M1ch431@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

If I could get a candle that smelled like the purple kush hemp strain I got back in the day, that'd be great. It had such an amazing fruity pebbles smell.

[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] NKBTN@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago

I'm assuming that's work like mosquito repellant for vampires

[–] icing@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago
[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 3 months ago

It's not that special here but tar is a pretty good one

[–] Scirocco@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago
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