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What's the most comforting smell in a home?

There is no correct answer to this one. In Hivemind you are guessing which of these 5 answers most other people picked.

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Why this one divides people

Smell is the shortcut straight to memory, which is why this one splits along the lines of how people grew up. Baking bread is the safe, warm, universally agreeable answer, and plenty of voters stop there. Clean laundry has a quieter following: it smells like a day that went right. Coffee people are voting for a time of morning, not a drink. Then there is the small, stubborn group who pick rain through an open window or woodsmoke, because their comfort is weather rather than food. None of them are wrong, and that is the fun.

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