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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 2 weeks ago (1 children)

buttery fried eggs and toast

old pine cabin on a rainy day

art classroom

[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] monovergent@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 weeks ago

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

steam deck vent smell

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

Lantana, burnt diesel, petrichor, mango sap.

[–] spykee@lemmings.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

[–] klemptor@startrek.website 2 points 2 weeks ago

Ugh I love the smell of lantana πŸ’š

[–] Jobe@feddit.org 7 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

Smells like maple syrup to me

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

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

[–] LastYearsIrritant@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks 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……

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[–] RebekahWSD@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Aeao@lemmy.world 6 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

Not when I'm stoned!

[–] Xanadu@feddit.online 5 points 2 weeks ago

Petrichor...

[–] ICCrawler@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago

Firework sulphur

[–] daggermoon@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] mangaskahn@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 4 points 2 weeks ago

Wrong kind of access point...

[–] Magnum@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Probably he likes accessing that point

[–] jacksilver@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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.

[–] VirtigoMommy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Some strains of weed

Blood and smoke

Unburnt Cigarettes

Gasoline

Dirt

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Dirt

there are petrichor candles.

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago

Uh that's actually pretty neat

[–] happydoors@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Metal AF my brother

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[–] TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago

Tea.

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

[–] lauha@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] _deleted_@aussie.zone 4 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
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[–] Sybilvane@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] TherapyGary@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I was just shopping for essential oils and saw tobacco there

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

[–] Banana@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

Hockey rink

[–] limer@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 weeks ago

New computer scent

[–] EurekaStockade@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] M1ch431@slrpnk.net 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] NKBTN@feddit.uk 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] icing@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago
[–] RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Scirocco@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago
[–] SatyrSack@quokk.au 1 points 2 weeks ago

Summer Horse Grave

[–] Mesa@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The smell you get when your mom runs the household vacuum cleaner from the late 2000s / early 2010s at noon on Sunday.

[–] floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago

That's dust my brother

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