We all enjoy a good smell: vanilla, fresh rain, the smell of a baseball glove. Smell is a memory trigger–an errant scent you find out in the public can suddenly zap you back to your second grade classroom, the smell of your teacher’s perfume seemingly reaching out from across time and space, grabbing you and drawing you back into your days of recess and learning cursive.
Smells can also be a gateway to hell. Who among us hasn’t come across something horrid and foul? A bad smell can lead to a bad day. A good smell can lead to–appropriately enough–a good day. Yankee Candle knows this. Yankee Candle knows the power of a good smell, though they are more apt to label it a “scent” to appeal to our high-end, metropolitan-aspiring sense of self.
All the bullshit aside, here’s 50 smells that deserve to be Yankee Candles. Maybe some already exist, but I’m going to venture out on a limb and figure at least some do not.
- Burning Leaves
- Pizza Sauce
- Pencil Shavings
- Tide Laundry Detergent
- Fried Apples
- Carnival Cotton Candy
- A freshly mowed lawn
- S’mores
- Salt Water Taffy
- French Fries
- Fried Chicken
- Exploded Firecrackers
- Bubblegum
- Old Leather
- Antique books
- Chalkboard erasers
- Carpet Stores
- New car floor mats
- Fresh Pretzels
- BBQ Pork
- Donuts
- Tree Bark
- Ozone
- Pool Chlorine
- Sunblock
- Charcoal
- Damp Morning Air
- Popcorn
- Roasted Pumpkin Seeds
- Clean towels
- Hospitals
- Cedar Mulch
- Hot Asphalt
- Coffee
- Ground up Tires
- Gasoline
- Construction Paper
- Halloween Masks
- A Snickers Bar
- Chili Powder
- Dirt
- Sawdust
- Vinyl Seats
- Jellybeans
- Pancakes
- Newspaper
- Acrylic Paint
- Creeks and Ponds
- Typewriter Ribbons
- The Inside of a walk-in freezer
You’ll notice a lot of food items here. I won’t apologize for that–I like food! Taste and smell are intertwined in our day-to-day lives, and it takes the fun out of the exercise to try and separate one from the other.
