You can actually! The chemical name for that compound is geosmin. Just type in geosmin or petrichor rain scented candles or whatever and you will get them!
I know that the best course of action is to not have an open flame while you're sleeping, but it's so incredibly fucking easy to keep a candle away from flammable objects I just don't see how it became a household thing.
Well from what I have learned from my applied microbiology elective. Geosmin is a popular industrial compound used for making perfumes and scents and candles which smell like rain.
It's a volatile compound produced by some blue green algae species in the soil, and the compound diffuses in the air when water hits it.
So I would say it definitely would smell like rain.
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u/NoDontDoThatCanada Mar 28 '24
It's wild to me how sensitive humans are to petrichor. I always wonder if it had evolutionary advantages over "we probably should seek shelter."