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?)

3 points | by Tade0 6 hours ago

7 comments

  • rishikeshs 2 hours ago
    Saw something similar: https://driesdepoorter.be/product/burningmoney/
  • ThrowawayR2 5 hours 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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  • thih9 6 hours ago
    Ask an LLM chat, of course.
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    • shinryuu 6 hours ago
      This is the way. Though I would say what does burnt GPU smell like? That's the smell of burnt tokens.
    • Tade0 5 hours ago
      ChatGPT gave me an idea, but I was wondering what human minds can come up with.
  • FlyingAvatar 3 hours ago
    Burning capacitor electrolyte
  • fullstick 6 hours ago
    Ozone?
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    • Tade0 5 hours ago
      ChatGPT indeed suggested a pinch of ozone, but I'm not sure how one puts that in a candle.
    • shinryuu 6 hours ago
      I think this is the answer.
  • NishanStepak 5 hours ago
    Melted plastic
  • beAbU 5 hours ago
    I would go for that tarry smoky smell you get from a heap of bbq briquettes just as they are set on fire.