What Does Ohio Smell Like?

So, there’s a candle company out in this wack-a-doo, smack-a-doo world of ours and they make candles that smell like home, and they have a candle that smells like Ohio. Allegedly…

Homesick Candle’s Ohio Candle smells like carnations and honeysuckle. We get it — carnations, it’s the state flower because McKinley was shot, blah blah blah — but they don’t have a smell other than “generic flower” smell. Boom. Roasted. Carnations – you’re on notice.

And can we all agree that honeysuckle is an invasive species that sucks the life out our spring beauties and bloodroot flowers, or how about the purple corn flowers and the blue vervains?

Ohio smells like every other Midwestern state smells, except with the added aroma of peanut butter and chocolate. We asked one Ohio native who misses home from Virginia about what her favorite state smells like, and she did a hell of a lot better job than we could.

“Whenever I come home for leave I look forward to smelling the woods and the environment that Ohio produces. The smell of the wool jacket I have to wear. The wind — I swear it smells like the river and soil. I love the smell of the corn fields when you drive with the windows down. Nighttime always smells really crisp and the morning has an intoxicatingly optimistic dewy smell.”

If that’s not the most accurate description of Ohio you’ve ever read, than you’ve never lived here.

So what do you think Ohio smells like? Sound off in the comments below!

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