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I love this list so much because it adds so much verity to scents in the omegaverse. My personal favorite scents (From my favorite candle) are sea salt and lily, lavender, old books, and the smell of bread.
Thoughts on Scents
So I wanted to just give my thoughts on some interesting scent options, because no hate to sandalwood, it seems like everyone always smells like it in fics. And since I also have an indie perfume obsession, I wanted to share some scents that may broaden people's horizons. I may do a part two depending on how well I like how this turned out.
Pine resin, with hints of wood smoke, and warm brandy.
The smell of damp fresh earth after a summer rain.
Palo santo, dry desert grasses, and sage
Amber, laudanum, and frankincense
Tobacco, burnt grasses, with hints of citrus
Pine needles, forest floor, and stone
Saltwater, ambergris, fresh rain, beach sand
Stone, oakmoss, clay, and wet concrete
Animal fur musk, mulled wine, and a cold winter breeze
Freshly washed linen, lemon cakes, and black tea
Coconut, dark rum, and sugarcane
Leather bound books, a dying fire, and cedar
A crisp fall evening, apple orchards, and toasted marshmallows
Magnolias, Spanish moss, and honeysuckle
Sun warmed earth, tomato plants, and iced tea
Cactus flowers, sweet grass, and wood dry vanilla
Lemon grass, heliotrope, and sugar cookies
Dead leaves, dry hay, and cognac
And that's no even touching on all the different kinds of plants, flowers, and foods. I could go on for a very long time.
Incense correspondences
🕯Allspice - Money, fortune, luck, prosperity
🕯Aloe - Higher vibrations, prosperity, strength, love
🕯Amber - Bliss, healing, comfort, love
🕯Anise - Balance, meditation
🕯Basil - Protection, luck, focus, faithfulness, money, love divination, courage
🕯Bay - Mental powers, prophetic dreams
🕯Bergamont - Wealth, happiness, focus, protection, courage, balance, motivation
🕯Cardomom - Focus, courage, motivation, clarity
🕯Cedar - Purification, love, healing, psychic powers, nightmares
🕯Chamomile - Protection, calm, peace, sleep
🕯Cinnamon - Protection, wealth, success, prosperity, psychic powers
🕯Clove - Cleansing, purification, wealth, stopping gossip, healing, success, divination, protection
🕯Copal - Purification, happiness, love, protection
🕯Citrus - Brightness, courage, confidence, luck, accomplishing goals
🕯Dragons Blood - Cleansing, energy, courage, purification, love, strengthening magical powers
🕯Eucalyptus - Cleansing, protection, purification, healing
🕯Frankincense - Cleansing, astral travel, courage, purification, consecration, protection, meditation, luck
🕯Gardenia - Love, relationships, healing, peace
🕯Ginger - Money, love, power
🕯Heather - Calling and conjuring
🕯Honeysuckle - Wealth, bliss, relationships, healing
🕯Jasmine - Prophetic dreams, love, wealth, purification, astral projection, purification
🕯Juniper - Breaking curses and hexes, protection, psychic powers, healing, calmness
🕯Lavender - Sleep, love, cleansing, happiness, relaxation, healing
🕯Lemon - Love, healing, purification
🕯Mint - Cleansing, conjuring, money, sex, healing, protection
🕯Nutmeg - Psychic powers, meditation, prosperity
🕯Orange - Love, divination, wealth, luck
🕯Peppermint - Healing, animal magic, energy
🕯Pine - Purification, banishing, wealth, strength, grounding, cleansing, breaking hexes, healing
🕯Rose - Prophetic dreams, courage, fertility, blessings, healing, love
🕯Rosemary - Depression, purification, healing, youth, fairies, sleep
🕯Sage - Protection, purification, cleansing, wisdom, healing
🕯Sandalwood - Conjuring, spirituality, protection, healing, astral projection, wishes
🕯Sweetgrass - Conjuring, positive energy
🕯Thyme - Purification, healing, health.
🕯Vanilla - Sex, love, psychic powers
🕯Violet - Luck, love, wisdom, healing, protection
🕯Wormwood - Psychic powers
🕯Ylang-ylang - Hapiness, love, harmony
220 Scents
This is a companion resource to Words To Describe Scent.
Arguably our most evocative sense, the sense of smell is an underused tool in writing descriptions and settings. Nothing transports me into the book I’m reading as effectively as the memory of some familiar scent, or some distant one awoken from the deepest parts of my brain. This is simply a list of recognizable scents, categorized by the “type” of scent or the kind of environment where it might be found:
(1) Natural scents are those that your character may expect to find in relatively undeveloped areas like while hiking a mountain, on a quest through a dark forest, or during an epic faceoff with their arch nemesis on a beach in the rain. These may also be found in more developed areas like a local park, and even in a peaceful oasis in a highly industrial area.
(2) Fruit/Vegetable scents are useful in many settings, so your character doesn’t have to work on a farm to use this list – though it certainly would come in handy for a farm setting! Our characters encounter these scents in the homes of loved ones, in inns where they rest for the night during a long journey, and while running through the palace orchard to warn the King of an impending attack.
(3) Florals, Herbs & Spices – perhaps the most fragrant and versatile category. Floral descriptions may be used for bouquets at an old flame’s wedding, or for a lover’s perfume left over on the pillow. Your character may encounter herbs & spices anywhere from a busy street market to a witch’s brew in an isolated mountain house.
(4) Industrial scents are those, in general, associated with humans, civilization, and development. These will typically be found in cities or wherever there are people. You may also notice that most of these would be generally considered unpleasant. That’s not to say pleasant scents don’t exist where there is development, just that the development itself usually doesn’t smell great. The beautiful scents from any of the other four categories can be, and often are, found in developed areas… especially those of the last category:
(5) Food! Your character’s favorite café, their mother’s kitchen when they were a child, the lunch their best friend used to share with them, the last Christmas meal at their ex-lover’s home, the cocktail they were drinking when they met their arch nemesis – the list is endless and endlessly evocative.
Use wisely and enjoy!
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I may stink of alcohol markers but you know what there are definitely worse things to smell like
Every sugar cookie thing smells just like a build a bear. Sugar cookie scented candles. Sugar cookie flavored chocolates. Sugar cookie scented soap and hand sanitizer. Build a bear scented.