# Unlikely Candle Scents **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 25, 2003, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlikely-candle-scents/157421 "2003-02-25T16:35:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlikely-candle-scents/157421/21 "2003-02-25T18:12:55Z")
Two week old tippy cup o’ milk. Liquid under a commercial dumpster. ---
**Author:** ![beagledave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6de8d8/32.png) [@beagledave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beagledave)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlikely-candle-scents/157421/22 "2003-02-25T18:14:04Z")
Guilt Potpourri Defined as: Invite-YOU-to-my-“CandleMagic”-house-party-and-force-you-to-buy-2-dozen- candles-and-holders-causing-ME-to-have-to-attend-YOUR-Longaberger-basket-party-and-buy-a-$50 tissue basket ---
**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlikely-candle-scents/157421/23 "2003-02-25T18:21:01Z")
Steaming Cowpatty Boiled Cabbage Swamp Gas Diesel Exhaust Dirty Diaper Bachelor’s Refrigerator Athlete’s Foot Mad Skunk ---
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlikely-candle-scents/157421/24 "2003-02-25T18:22:10Z")
I have a plum-pudding scented candle in the kitchen that I still haven’t tried lighting. Unlikely, but true! ---
**Author:** ![ion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f1d935/32.png) [@ion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ion)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlikely-candle-scents/157421/25 "2003-02-25T18:25:22Z")
Filthy drawers? Dead mouse? So that’s what turns you on? Gee, you people are strange… 😉 Me, I’d go for: Salty sea breeze. The vague, yet distinct, smell of air at -35 C. ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlikely-candle-scents/157421/26 "2003-02-25T18:26:18Z")
Egg Salad Sandwich Fart Unflushed Toilet in 90F Weather Moldy Clothes Rancid Milk Stale Pizza Garbage Disposal Bleach Ginger Ale Barf. ( **2trew** - I think a Play-Doh candle would be cool!) ---
**Author:** ![FairyChatMom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fairychatmom/32/21825_2.png) [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlikely-candle-scents/157421/27 "2003-02-25T18:28:43Z")
Dunno if anyone uses this copying process any longer, but: Mimeograph fluid ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlikely-candle-scents/157421/28 "2003-02-25T18:32:08Z")
I love the smell of that stuff, **FCM**! And the _ka-chuk ka chuk_ of the mimeograph machine 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlikely-candle-scents/157421/29 "2003-02-25T18:35:14Z")
Apples ‘n’ meat Berries ‘n’ bleach Pickles ‘n’ gasoline Fudge ‘n’ carcass Wildflowers ‘n’ whiskey Cucumber ‘n’ Napalm Cinnamon ‘n’ sulfer Citrus ‘n’ horse Elderberry ‘n’ Liquid Paper ---
**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlikely-candle-scents/157421/30 "2003-02-25T18:38:36Z")
(just one or two more, this is fun) Survivor contestants, day 29 in the Amazon cheap wine vomit sauerkraut cat breath, after eating tuna (I love kitties, even stinky ones) formaldehyde and, perhaps worst of all, the smell of **fear** ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlikely-candle-scents/157421/31 "2003-02-25T18:45:24Z")
essence of stress pencil lead mustard gas ---
**Author:** ![porcupine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ac91a4/32.png) [@porcupine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/porcupine)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlikely-candle-scents/157421/32 "2003-02-25T18:48:42Z")
Cat anal gland leakage ---
**Author:** ![dinahmoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8797f3/32.png) [@dinahmoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dinahmoe)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlikely-candle-scents/157421/33 "2003-02-25T18:54:10Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by FairyChatMom \* > \*\*Dunno if anyone uses this copying process any longer, but: > > Mimeograph fluid \*\* Dammit! I was hoping no one else would think of that:) Band-aid Dental Plaque Urinal Puck ---
**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlikely-candle-scents/157421/34 "2003-02-25T18:58:51Z")
Burning tires Morning breath Cattle feedlot Kim-chee Last year’s Easter eggs Warm placenta Maggotty meat Bile and … Whatever the dog rolled in before getting in bed with you. ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlikely-candle-scents/157421/35 "2003-02-25T19:11:03Z")
Pig farm mouse tinkle Spaghetti sauce spill on a red hot burner Party-house carpet on a hot, humid day Italian sausage belches Burnt-up electrical motor jalapeno vomit ---
**Author:** ![NurseCarmen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/5daacb/32.png) [@NurseCarmen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NurseCarmen)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlikely-candle-scents/157421/36 "2003-02-25T19:17:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ion \* > \*\*[SIZE=1]The vague, yet distinct, smell of air at -35 C. \*\* I always thought of that as a fresh smell, once my nostrils managed to open. Maybe you were smelling the inside of your nostrils once they slammed shut. two more: Bum Clothes Mississippi River, Late Summer. ---
**Author:** ![No\_Me\_Ayudes\_Compadre](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/no_me_ayudes_compadre/32/5224_2.png) [@No\_Me\_Ayudes\_Compadre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/No_Me_Ayudes_Compadre)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlikely-candle-scents/157421/37 "2003-02-25T19:28:12Z")
Pantyhose Potpourri Peaches n Semen Praeder Willie’s Coprophagic Frolic Sebaceous ‘Nilla Gangrenous Grove Morning Erithromycin Effluvial Discharge Gardens Public Pool-pourri Murky Lavender Discharge Touch o’ Smegma ---
**Author:** ![Dumbguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/2bfe46/32.png) [@Dumbguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dumbguy)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlikely-candle-scents/157421/38 "2003-02-25T19:36:45Z")
I have a Sweaty Feet scented candle that my niece gave me for Christmas. I lit it once, and it lives up to billing. ---
**Author:** ![Thinks2Much](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/73ab20/32.png) [@Thinks2Much](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thinks2Much)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlikely-candle-scents/157421/39 "2003-02-25T19:47:29Z")
leaky battery hot tar in 100% humidity in August rubber cement permanent marker the smell inside stores that make their own glasses - Pearl Vision and such - they smell awful!!! ---
**Author:** ![irkenDoom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c2a13f/32.png) [@irkenDoom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irkenDoom)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2003, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlikely-candle-scents/157421/40 "2003-02-25T19:57:01Z")
> [@](#): > > _originally posted by dinahmoe_ > > **Urinal Puck** Hey, ever smelled the Lemongrass & Orange candle from Yankee? Close as you can get! :: puke :: [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlikely-candle-scents/157421.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unlikely-candle-scents/157421.md?page=3)