New Mexico is considering the roasted chile as its official state aroma. What should be the official state aroma for the other states?

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1. Deep fried oreos

2. Maine = faint salt breeze and pine wafting over moss and lichen covered granite with woodsmoke entwining

3. California here. Free range wildfire! Ah! Summer!

4. California: diesel exhaust

   Florida: sunblock

   Arizona: the smell of rain in a monsoon

   Washington: weed

   Oregon: weed mixed with beard oil

   Vermont: real maple, not that fake Canadian stuff

   Texas: mesquite smoke

   Kentucky: bourbon

   Wisconsin: deep fried cheese

   Nevada: cigarettes and old beer

5. Barbecue!!!

6. Mushroom farm

7. Dunkin Donuts

8. Wisconsin- Dive bar urinal.

9. Fir needles.

10. Ohio – a freshly fertilized cornfield with just the hint of burning rubber and industrial chemicals.

11. Oklahoma:Post Oak

12. Speaking for the city only: hot garbage and French perfume.

13. NJ = car exhaust mixed with pine trees

14. Trees, specifically evergreen.

15. come to Wisconsin, smell our “dairy air”

16. What a burning river smell like?

17. Weed for us

18. Oregon and Washington will fight over who gets to claim [Petrichor](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petrichor) versus who gets to claim sawdust. (residents of the Eastern portions of both states will just seethe in silence)

19. Half of downtown Chicago smells like Chocolate, so I vote that…

20. Peach Cobbler.

21. Wildfire smoke with hints of homeless person urine.

22. Peanut Butter and Chocolate for Ohio.

23. Louisiana:
    The smell right before it rains mixed with some Zatarain’s Crawfish Boil

24. Colorado is Dog Food

25. Fried chicken

26. It’s honestly “fresh manure” for like ~60% of states.

27. The smell of ice forming on the inside of your nostrils.

28. BBQ, tacos and tequila

29. Illinois: Hog farm

30. NJ: pollution and horse shit

31. Maryland – Old Bay seasoning

32. Beer

33. On a hot day, the combination of sunscreen, salt water, and a santa ana breeze with a hint of grilled meat. It’s heaven.

34. Do I even need to say it? Weed

35. The smell of a good brisket

36. It’s smells like a lake every time it rains, and not in a good way.

37. Football Leather and Pine Trees.

38. Sagebrush

39. NYC-like someone peed

40. For Maryland, it’d definitely be Old Bay.

41. Vernors