Ask HN: Burned Tokens scented candle ideas

The other day my relative, who is a data engineer, floated the idea of a scented candle that would smell like burned LLM tokens. His birthday is coming up, so I was thinking of turning this into reality.

Problem is, neither me nor my immediate social circle have a good idea which scents would best convey this, so I figured I would reach out here.

Some initial propositions include:

-Burned toast

-Diesel fuel

-Gold (no discernible scent though)

-Fresh water

-Rainforest (that's being destroyed?)

5 points | by Tade0 1 day ago

12 comments

qup 1 hour ago
Paper. They're just writers, after all.
rishikeshs 23 hours ago
Saw something similar: https://driesdepoorter.be/product/burningmoney/
andyjohnson0 5 hours ago
The smell of the Magic Smoke from burning electronics.
ThrowawayR2 1 day ago
Hot printed circuit boards, of course. Probably a blow dryer on max temperature for 10 minutes against an old PCIe card would give you an idea of what that smells like. (Do this outside, obviously.)
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- Tade0 1 day ago
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mikewarot 17 hours ago
Sandalwood - it's nice and luxurious, just like paying full freight on tokens
Dumblydorr 5 hours ago
Actual feces
FlyingAvatar 1 day ago
Burning capacitor electrolyte
thih9 1 day ago
Ask an LLM chat, of course.
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- shinryuu 1 day ago
  This is the way. Though I would say what does burnt GPU smell like? That's the smell of burnt tokens.
- Tade0 1 day ago
  ChatGPT gave me an idea, but I was wondering what human minds can come up with.
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  - thih9 19 hours ago
    Then again, the answer obtained by burning the tokens seems true by definition.
fullstick 1 day ago
Ozone?
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- Tade0 1 day ago
  ChatGPT indeed suggested a pinch of ozone, but I'm not sure how one puts that in a candle.
- shinryuu 1 day ago
  I think this is the answer.
beAbU 1 day ago
I would go for that tarry smoky smell you get from a heap of bbq briquettes just as they are set on fire.
NishanStepak 1 day ago
Melted plastic