What would smell like lit matches that could be in the air for a few hundred square feet?

Burning leaves often puts off a match-like smell, which can travel for miles.

Sometimes hardwood charcoal in a chimney has the same scent when it first gets going.

Do you live in my neighborhood? My husband just went out to investigate the smell of burning.

@Fly I guess its possible that someone near by is burning leaves.
@wonderingwhy Thanks, but it would really be too warm to burn coal. But its always good to know.
@cupcake, Depends if you live in Northern Virginia??

@Pandora oops, should have been clearer, I meant for a bbq.

@pandora Nope. Apparently he drove by a neighbor’s house across the street and they were lighting their grill (at 9:15pm). So as not to appear suspicious, he continued driving and went to the store to buy me a dessert I was wanting earlier tonight. :)

@Cupcake Sounds like a win for you! :D
Funny smell = dessert.
My hubby was a sweety today. He bought me some tiramasu. Yum! Funny how we had stange smells and dessert in common tonight. LOL

@wonderingwhy Probably was a bbq then. Since I haven’t noticed any brush fires. Plus the ground is pretty moist still.

I smelled cat poop and got no dessert. WTF?

@poofandmook Because it was poop. :( Sorry. Maybe next time.

I’m at my Dad’s right now and it reeks of man smell. Sans dessert. :(

Delaware

@lillycoyote Don’t remember Delaware smelling that bad, but things do change. :)

I smell that all the time, but I live between a steel mill & a railroad station. And the sewers are horrible.

@Draconess25 Yeah, but its the first time in 2 years since living here, have I smell it before. So its not a common smell around here.

@Pandora Lucky.

@Pandora I think it depends on where you were before you got here, I think. I grew up in Delaware and then moved back after 11 years in Portland, OR and then 7 years in Austin, TX. It took about a month after moving back before it stopped smelling, to me, like a gas leak filtered through a rotten egg and an ashtray. I’ve been back here 15 years and I will never forget that. I still think, what the hell am I breathing in here? I can’t smell it anymore, but I know it’s there. Though in southern Delaware it smells more like rotten algea, clams and chicken manure.

@lillycoyote I lived in northern Delaware for two years. Near Wilmington. If you were close to the river, that would explain a lot of the rotten egg smell. But what I smelled tonight, didn’t smell like rotten eggs, just that sulfur smell that you get from matches.

I had been working on the yard getting rid of brush. A while later I went to the store and as I was cashing out the cashier said “Mmm, you smell like my husband.” I replied, “Excuse me?” She said: “He was burning brush too.”

@worriedguy…that means you probably smell like a smoked salami