My state smells like ...

[dixiehack]

Depends on who you ask. Alabama of course smells like infrequently cleaned barbecue grates and pesticide. But these people have a different opinion.

Homesick Candles

 

[Riptide]

The Texas candles smell like wet cow ****.
DoctorQueef just ordered three dozen.

 

[SpeedTchr]

Money. My state smells like money.

 

[Spartan Squad]

A mixture of salt, redwood trees, urine, BO, exhaust, axe body spray, weed, cow dung and onions. Depending on where you are.

 

[jr/shotglass]

Every time I've driven to Florida, Georgia has smelled putrid from the first exit on I-95 to the last before the two hours of Jacksonville.

My state smells like cow patties. Except for Hershey, which smells like chocolate, and Philly, which smells like bus exhaust fumes.

 

[Vombatus]

Uh oh, here's an opportunity to once again make reference to cucumber and ass-scents.

 

[MisterCreosote]

Every time I've driven to Florida, Georgia has smelled putrid from the first exit on I-95 to the last before the two hours of Jacksonville.

My state smells like cow patties. Except for Hershey, which smells like chocolate, and Philly, which smells like bus exhaust fumes.

I don't think there's a name yet for what Kennett Square ("The Mushroom Capital of the World") smells like.

 

[Spartan Squad]

I don't think there's a name yet for what Kennett Square ("The Mushroom Capital of the World") smells like.

As someone who lived in a town known for its mushrooms (at the risk of outting myself), I can unequivocally say it smells like musty, sour ****.

 

[ChrisLong]

Gilroy in NoCal. Garlic capital of the world. Unmistakeable.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

There is no mistaking the sulfuric smell of a paper mill from miles away. That to me will always be Arkansas.

 

[ChrisLong]

Here is another one from NoCal during family trips decades ago. Approaching Merced it was ketchup. Where are the damn french fries?

 

[User 11148]

Money. My state smells like money.

It has a lovely smell, doesn't it?

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

Gilroy in NoCal. Garlic capital of the world. Unmistakeable.

Never thought of Gilroy as NoCal, more far northern Central Coast. Sorry to split hairs.

 

[SpeedTchr]

It has a lovely smell, doesn't it?

Especially right around Stairtown!

 

[ChrisLong]

Never thought of Gilroy as NoCal, more far northern Central Coast. Sorry to split hairs.

Gilroy is north of Santa Cruz and well north of the Monterey Peninsula. That's NoCal, bro.
And furthermore, everything north of Santa Barbara is NoCal. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

 

[Spartan Squad]

Never thought of Gilroy as NoCal, more far northern Central Coast. Sorry to split hairs.

Like Chris said, Gilroy is comparatively north in California. It's the southern tip of Santa Clara County (20-25 miles south of San Jose proper and slightly more than 10 miles south of the SJ city limit) which puts it in the Bay Area and thus in NorCal.

I'll disagree and say San Luis Obispo is roughly the dividing line from NorCal and SoCal with gray areas from Fresno south to the Kern County line.

 

[JohnHammond]

One major city I used to live in smelled like sewage about a quarter of the time when the wind blew from a certain direction. I wasn't fortunate to live in the meatpacking city that my dad grew up at (Omaha).

 

[MisterCreosote]

Virginia smells like a metric ****-ton of pollen.

 

[Buck]

I'm not a CA native, but I've been here 17 years now.
The geographic center of the state is at North Fork, which is northeast of Fresno.
Attempting to divide the state in half and refer to northern and southern california from that perspective has little meaning to anyone.
I wouldn't consider Gilroy Northern California. Northern California starts with the Bay Area. Gilroy is below the Bay Area.
Southern California starts from the Grapevine south.
The seven counties of the Central Valley, the Central Coast and some other stragglers are just central. They are not really northern or southern.
Calling Merced Northern California is a real stretch.

 

[SpeedTchr]

Lived in a smallish town with a Swiss Miss plant. My goodness did it smell good when the wind blew the right direction.