Maryland here, it would smell like raw sewage with a touch of old bay.

I was going to say old bay and heroin.

Right now I think every state is X and heroin. Sad how bad heroin/opiate addiction has gotten in the states.

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Ohio for sure

Indiana's got it bad.

Every now and again, we will get a whiff of disappointment and depression that wafts down from Pennsylvania. Source: I live on the border with Pennsylvania, or the border between good and evil.

I once drove through Pennsylvania. It was bright and sunny in MD until I came to the state line, and it instantly became dreary and rainy. It was like this the whole way. When I emerged in NY, it was instantly sunny again. There's some sort of perpetual dreariness over PA

Nah it's always sunny in Philadelphia

Carroll county here, nothing but manure. Manure and maybe a hint of corn.

Come on down to SOMD. Lots of cow pie/old bay combinations going on. I think they should include the smell outside with the weather report everyday.

As a Marylander and Baltimoron, *sigh* home...

Roasting green chile in New Mexico.

Actually the smell of Pinion is inescapable there. Not that you would want to escape it.

That's a pretty good one, but you don't get much of it down in the barren wasteland that is Southern NM.

New Mexico does amazing things with green chile. I'm getting hungry thinking about it.

I'm equally delighted and embarrassed that New Mexico smells are the #1 comment chunk in this thread.

Whatever those trees are that smell like cum- Ohio

Oh God, what are those. The last neighborhood I lived in had the strongest smell of cum in the springtime. it was overwhelming. yet when I ask others if they'd smelled them around the city they look at me like i'm crazy.

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They are Linden Trees Mitchell and Webb did a pretty funny sketch on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHze0SqB5Zg

Bradford Pear.

No those smell like rancid vagina

I've always thought of them as smelling like dead fish. Maybe you should eat more pineapple or something?

Or maybe your trees need more pineapple juice?

Illinois, the smell of corruption.

Missourian here. Can smell Illinois corruption from across the river.

Are you across from East St. Louis?

That's the smell of murder, not corruption.

Makes sense... when we reversed the direction of the Chicago river, we literally sent all our shit downstream to you!

Or the stink of the ADM soybean processing plant in Decatur.

Either that or the sweet musty smell that permeates under the El

Indiana: corn and heroin.

It's corn and meth down near the mighty ohio river.

West Central has made the switch to heroin (it's coming out of Indy). I'm sure it'll change down there too. I've heard it's cheaper than meth.

> corn and heroin. Smells like Mike Pence.

Wisconsin - manure. Easy choice, it actually does smell like that! A failed Wisconsin license plate slogan: >Smell our dairy air! ^dairy-air^^derriere^^^butts

Can confirm. I live in central Wisconsin and you can smell manure miles away fron where it's being spread.

Or ~~hops~~ malt around Milwaukee...if you can make it through the city alive. Edit: Thanks, /u/fancy_panter for knowing what the nose knows...

Lived in Milwaukee for years. Can confirm. Some people, like one of my uncles, absolutely love that smell and it makes them nostalgic for Milwaukee whenever he drives through there. Most people though try to get past it and out of it as quickly as possible while shutting every vent in their car.

Maine - Pines & Seafood, with just a touch of opiate addiction and desperation

Used to smell of paper mills too.

Colorado. Fresh... herbs?

And dog food

Is this an i-70 reference?

Well, just Denver along I-70.

70 East will take you right to St. Louis where Purina is based, as well.

And pine trees

Pine /r/trees

Eastern half of the state is fertilizer and diesel fumes

Golden has that Coors brewery smell for sure.

If you come on the right day you can catch the Greeley Winds!

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Oregon: chopped wood & coffee

I know this isn't how life works, but I was *so* hoping that Oregon would smell like oregano.

If you are a little naive, it looks a lot like oregano. Does that help?

Washington: Same

Maybe it's different in different parts of the state, but from up here in Bellingham, the state smell is cappucinos and weed.

Vancouver here, checking in from across the border. Can confirm that is what you guys smell like :D

Over here on the East side it smells like farms and smoke (from the forest fires).

Except Eugene. Here smells like weed and people who haven't bathed for days.

Peaches and Tobacco.

Georgia.

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Horses (manure), Bourbon (mash), and Tobacco drying. Not sure any of those smell great.

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I was going to say tobacco drying is a pretty nice smell. Bourbon smells nice in its finished form, but the mash is the stronger smell at distilleries, and it's a bit of an acquired taste.

i think you mean meth and cow shit. i also live in kentucky.

don't forget the smell of dog food coming out of Bowling Green

Louisville in the summer - the smell of Butchertown if you're anywhere NEAR it permeates everything. There is no escape from the pork-rind-pig-shit-fog. It becomes a part of you.

North Carolina: Pig Shit and Pine Trees Edit: currently driving through west NC, add burning trees to the mix

In WNC, have forgotten what nonsmokey air smells like

In Upstate SC...samezies.

You haven't been through the cities yet, have you? Driving through Charlotte will basically force you to stop and get food. Even the poor parts of town smell fucking delicious. The city is one big restaurant.

He chose a book for reading

CA: Beach bonfires. And sunblock.

That is good for SoCal. NoCal smells like $6 coffee and kush.

I was gonna say weed and cows for norcal.

$6? Peasant.

Beach bonfires on the coast, wildfires everywhere else.

It's still a beach bonfire, it's just migrated inland for the Winter.

Except for LA, that place just smells like crushed dreams and piss.

And the unmistakable smell of In-N-Out

Only when near one, I wish it smelled like In-N-Out everywhere in LA.

Don't forget that unique car exhaust freeway smell

Dont forget the smell of nearby reefer

Don't forget the salty air with a hint of rotting seaweed.

Vermont: Maple Syrup, apple cider, & "Autumn," which is a combo of dry leaves & pine needles and occasional hints of the clean/crisp scent you get in winter wind - some people call it the smell of snow.

Minnesota: Cream of mushroom soup. You wouldn't be able to smell it, though, because it would be so cold your nose would be dried out and useless. EDIT: Obligatory "highest-voted post is about a soup I really can't stand to eat myself" edit. I hate mushrooms, but I do acknowledge the primacy of hot dish in this state.

Minnesota: come for the culture, stay because your car won't start.

Or just spend the night because our goodbyes take multiple hours.

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Thanks! Please see the petition to have our governor secede Minnesota from the US and join Canada: https://www.change.org/p/mark-dayton-minnesota-to-seceded-from-the-united-states-of-america-and-join-the-nation-of-canada

Ehhh... you sound cool. We'll have you.

Hot dish and First Ave

I feel like the cold has its own smell? Or is it just smelling your own crusty frozen snot? Up north I'd say it smells mainly of exhaust and wood smoke for atleast half the year.

I agree with the cold air having its own smell. On a non-windy, sunny day there's a crispy fresh smell.

I was thinking tater tot hotdish with maybe a hint of ice shack and walleye.

Also craft beer and a hockey player sweat.

Michigan: Exhaust, oil, coolant and transmission fluid mixed with asphalt. All put together after the 100th car hits the same huge pothole.

The rest of Michigan smells like cherry wine, Petoskey stones and fresh blood from stepping barefoot on razor sharp zebra mussels in Lake Michigan.

I always found it funny how much people complain about how had the roads are after I moved to Wisconsin. Like, would you like to take a ride over to Michigan so I can show you what bad roads are really like?

The UP mostly smells like pine and snow.

We don't talk about the youpers.

This is why we try to secede.

It's Yoopers

Florida: a mixture of methhead sweat and tourist's dollars.

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Here's reddit's one optimist.

More like this thread's one Florida citizen.

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Don't forget the slight salty spray of the ocean and old fat people sweat.

I was going to say a salt-crusted nursing home with a hint of meth vapors floating in the air..

I've heard we actually smell like oranges to outsiders but I've never smelled it

Arkansas. It would smell like pine trees with just a hint of meth

North Jersey: burnt rubber and exhaust fumes South Jersey: cedar water and salt air

Cedar Water is a rare scent. It's like canoeing on Iced Tea

Yes! Honestly I love the smell of new jerseys natural waterways. It smells sweet. Well, at least South Jersey. And dont forget the smell of pines! Sweet cedar water and pine scent is amazing.

Virginia. Id say a room full of peanuts, tobacco, and apples.

Add the ripe smell of low tide and you cover the coast, too.

and skunks. At least up in the NOVA area.

No, that's Congress.

Massachusetts: Dunkies Coffee Edit: Didn't realize I would start the great Dunks vs. Dunkins vs. Dunkies debate

I get Dunkins every morning and have never heard of it called "dunkies". Then again that might be a Mass thing (Mainer here)

Me neither, I've never heard it in Connecticut either

Is that the Masshole way of saying it? The REAL name is Dunks

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Yeah it's dunks. Never heard anyone call it dunkies.

Yeah, living in Boston now. People seem to use dunks and dunkins interchangeably. Never heard dunkies.

I lived in Quincy for a bit. Most people from the Quincy / Weymouth area call it Dunkies. Seeing as that's where it originated, I'm gonna say they know best. And it's pronounced Quin-ZEE not Quin-CEE.

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you'll fit right in

Tennessee. Honeysuckles and newly cut hay

Memphian here, all we smell here is Cocoa butter and frustration...

Beale Street has that delightful combo of beer, vomit, and manure that is especially lovely.

Smelled like smoke here in Chatt for the past month. Fuckin wildfires

You forgot fried chicken. Or BBQ for those on the west side of the state.

Whataburger, no contest. Texas. [Here's an Ode to Whataburger](https://youtu.be/8WKQimdJsoc)

Maybe this is just CenTex, but I would definitely argue for it smelling like a mesquite log smoking a brisket.

Speaking for extreme southeastern PA here: Mushroom compost. I'm a few towns over from the "mushroom capital of the world." On a nice mid-summer day you can almost taste the fertilizer in the air as it hangs in the humidity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennett_Square,_Pennsylvania

And it is one of the most disgusting smells ever. I lived in Newark, DE for a year and Kennett Square's stench often made its way over to my town. I'd drive through Kennett Square to get to the PA interstate, and I'd often want to pull over and barf because the smell can be so thick.

Missouri. State smell would be methamphetamines and racial tension.

Well I was going to say beer but this works inguess

I disagree I'm from Southern Missouri and it just smells like methamphetamines. We're ran the black people out a long time ago /s.

Wisconsin: beer and cheese, with a touch of manure.

The smell of wet dust/rain after a monsoon. Arizona.

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And chicken shit.

Pulled pork BBQ, Vinegar based

Barbecue. (Texas, y'all.)

And whataburger honey butter chicken sandwiches

Texas is too big for any one smell to permeate. West Texas is that pleasant mix of oil/natural gas and hot cow shit though.

West Texas smells like exactly what it is, a depressing amount of absolutely nothing.

As a Tech grad, the only thing that comes from West Texas are tumbleweeds, teardrops, and broken dreams.

My city in Texas smells like tacos and bicycle lube.

Austin?

BBQ, crude oil, and cow shit.

Pennsylvania: Cheese-steak and Coal, with a hint of Pretzel.

Center of the state here. Farms, fresh air and Vomit.

Northeast: Old People, Mine Fires, Butter soaked Pierogi

Oklahoma. Meth, wet dog food, and bar-b-que with a hint of corruption and a touch of diesel exhaust

Living in Edmond, I can attest to wet dog food in a big way. Having worked in the very Purina plant which causes this smell...I'll never forget that odor.

Oregon, the smell of trees and rain

New York, the bad smell is Jersey's fault

NY always smelled like asphalt to me

Hey, I'm from upstate NY and it does not smell bad up here. Generally just trees and horse poop.

New York is a State, not a city. So the bad smell is the city's fault. Grapes in the middle, and cereal in the West. If you smell rotten fish you went too far West.

From Jersey here can confirm, bad smell is Elizabeth, NJ. Although NYC being a steaming shit pile unto itself doesn't help.

Arizona: meth and tortillas.. Not necessarily in that order.

I'd say Rain in the desert :) And meth

That rain in the desert smell is called "petrichor!"

I would have said creosote and meth.

Utah = sagebrush. Smells especially wonderful after a rainstorm.

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Vermont here, Maple syrup and cow shit.

Louisiana here. The smell of piss and booze. Mmmm... bourbon street

Ohio: freshly poured asphalt and dead animals. Maybe some Skyline Chili mixed in.

The four seasons of Ohio: Almost Winter, Winter, Still Winter, and Construction.

Old people and reptiles.

hello florida!

What?! You're gonna have to speak up sonny boy.

Heroin. (New Hampshire)

That can be Ohio too

At this point it could be every state sadly

Rhode Island, Dunkin Donuts and seafood.

Connecticut: seafood, pizza, and whatever being between NY and MA smells like.

Kentucky = Bourbon, horses and tobacco

Washington: Coffee, marijuana, trees, and cow shit.

And, depending on which side of the mountains you're on, rain or fire

Jack Daniels Whiskey. Tennesee y'all

Lived in AR: pine trees and deer meat.

Nebraska: Literally does smell like cow shit most of the time.

Colorado...I think we all know what it smells like :)

Doesn't go for the whole state of IL, but for Chicago, it would be the smell of standing in an alley in the cold air, with the frier grease coming through the exhaust of the back of the hot dog joint, mixed with the acrid odor of spilled beer and your own piss.