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?)

Saw something similar: https://driesdepoorter.be/product/burningmoney/

Sandalwood - it's nice and luxurious, just like paying full freight on tokens

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.)

Ask an LLM chat, of course.

Burning capacitor electrolyte

Ozone?

Melted plastic

I would go for that tarry smoky smell you get from a heap of bbq briquettes just as they are set on fire.