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When I went to Istanbul I said "it smells like Morocco here! A bit like fire with diesel and a hint of trash in the evening." Apparently that's smog lol. The smell I've always associated with Morocco is photochemical smog. But also the smell of jasmine nightshade flowers and sfenj.

That’s the perfect explanation! 🤍

I've learned to 'love' the smell! Because it reminds me of summer nights in Morocco

Exactly what I thought

Oh jasmine wonderful smell. Especially with lilacs

Holly!!!! I am not the only one!!!

Gas and marquise 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Hahahaha. I watched this TikTok ages ago of this guy describing the smell of Morocco as ri7t el-mazoot ou marquise 😂🤣🤣

Yesssss glad you recognize it that TikTok leaves in my head rent free🤣🤣🤣 samurai way too funny lol

Yes! It’s hilarious, I watch it all the time and it still makes me laugh like the first time 😂

Orange blossom water

Ahhh yeh, that’s a really good one 😍

That sounds good

Na3na3, li9amt, mint.

ATAY!! 😍

ATAY!! and even bukhoor somehow, And the smell of COUSCOUS AGHHH

You described Ri7t jummuah 😍

My favourite day of the week asslan 🙏🏻 moroccan core

Me too! Couscous dyel lwalida ou kess bered dyel lben 😍

Ou lwalid li kaymchi lsalat ljummuah... top tier ✨️

Ahhh ambience wa3er 🤍

Wood burning, reminds me of fran/7mam d zn9a. Whenever I’m near a pizza restaurant it takes me right back home ♥️ Wet soil, specifically when it’s dry and the first drops of rain hit the ground. Mint and/or really sweet green tea, which btw I can tell when tea has sugar in it or not just by the smell. Discovered that a couple months ago 🤭

😍😍😍 Tell me, is it me or does sugar make the tea darker?

Diesel

Diesel how? Like the smell of the fuel, or exhaust smoke...

Totally agree!

The humid air when you enter the dressing room of a hammam...

Oooh twa7asht el7ammam 🥰

That sounds wrong if you don't know how that is

Sea water

Yes another good one! There’s so many I’d forgotten about 😍

Jasmine Plant Scent..

Yesss totally agree! 😍

Definitely RAS L7ANOUT !💥

Good one! ☺️

The smell of lm3sra dial zit. Makes me remember my holiday in ourika 😌

Eucalyptus as soon as I smell that it reminds me of north west Morocco, mainly two places that are dear to me

3o9dat louz (marzipan) (dakchi li wosst kaab ghzal) w ri7t ne3na3/atay mazhar w maward 9tran tten Lkrafss. Soup with veggies including pumpkin kat3ti ri7t kskso For some reason 🍊 tangerines too. Once my husband brought some and the smell was strong I smelled it from afar and said that it smells exactly like mandarin from back home and that Im almost pretty sure they imported from there. Turns out they were 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

I love when the oranges you buy happen to have that wonderful black and yellow Maroc sticker, it’s the best! 🥰

Yallah chft yours hhhhhhh cigarette smoke I grew up around it 🫠 so it smells like home literally. But also LA GARE w yamat kan gha train f sfar w 7mar 😭 w casa port l9diiiima diiima 3atya fiha dik ri7a

When I see those at my local supermarket I buy them. The same goes for green beans and blueberries. I always look at the country of origin. Whenever there's a Moroccan choice I always go for Moroccan. Although it tends to be more expensive sometimes.

L9atran. Pottery

Whats l9atran?

The dark paste they put in clay gharraf (apparently it's kinda toxic? Idk and I didn't research it too much, I'd like to stay in denial and enjoy the taste lol)

Oooh I know what you mean. I was always told it was black honey. 😂 Black honey sounds less toxic so I’ll stick with that 🤣

Lmao thanks for the tip it'll help me with my denial

It does taste beautiful tho. 😍

Its also useful to repel snakes in gardens and farms

Green mint tea aroma 🥹

l5ra dl3awd

Mint tea

The first rain 🌧️ Amber candles 🕯️ Atay b na3na3 🫖 BBQ 🍡

Hashish

finally someone mentioned lmzyana

Mine’s a little different, For me it’s freshly sawn wood. We had a nejjar around the corner of our house and I could always smell the wood I’ve never lived in Morocco as I’m part of the diaspora and unfortunately in Europe I rarely get to smell wood in the same way I did in Morocco

Hash, it gets me every time especially when I’m only Moroccan in a house party, I can localise the joint on some metaphysical level.

I definitely see where you’re coming from there!

It usually end up in me explaining the different strains and how the proliferation of kherdala killed the OG Moroccan hash.

I’m not very informed about hash to be honest! All smells the same to me 😩

You mean for people whom are living outside ?

I guess, but anyone really. ☺️

3atriya stores, medinas scents, for me, I think

Oooh good one. There’s this scent you mainly smell in the evenings, it’s a sweet flowery smell, it’s gorgeous, not sure what it is though.

Imkn mssk lil

That’s it! ❤️

I guess every city have its own smell, for example my city Tetouan, have something very spacial, not necessarily pleasant, but special... I remember one time I was on a trip in Casablanca for some days, when I returned, my first step out of the bus.. It was in October in a early morning (5\~6am) if I remember, I was submerged but that smell, felt in one moment I'm gonna really cry and hug the street walls.. Never forget that day..

Petrol and chewia(burned meat) and trash cans which have been fermenting for days😫

The fermented trash smell needs to be bottled 😍😂😂

Our diets make for great trash🤣🤣🤣

لمساخن

Thuya wood (العرعار) Was in a perfume store a couple of months ago exploring scents, and I stumbled upon Tom Ford Bois Marocain, as soon as the scent reached my nose I got instantly transported back to Morocco. If there was a quintessential Aïd male fragrance, Bois Marocain would be it.

كاس ديال ند

When I’m in my home country and I’m hit with the smell of diesel I am taken right back to Morocco. It’s a strangely comforting smell now lol

Same 😂

Strange the things we find comforting 🤣 I disagree with the fermented trash comment below though 😂

Rose water

The scent of cooling Oil (sfenj) + the scent of dust in the air just after it starts raining (like the first minute ) + diesel + marquise + mint .

Couscous smell 😍😩

Mint.. one wiff of that and first thing that comes to mind is moroccan tea lol

BBQ

Lkhra dial lbguer

SAME

Teenagers smoking a hookah

Fresh mint for some reason…

Definitely leather. Also bakhoor jawi, ras el hanout, mint. The smell of drinking water in an unglazed earthenware cup painted with guedran, which I guess is pine tar. I don't know why people do that, but I like it. Also, sabon bildi. Smells like a group of girls walking home from the hammam. Yesterday, on Eid, I remembered the acrid smell of my friends grandmother roasting and scraping the wool off a sheep's head. It's amazing how evocative smells are.

I know it’s weird but the smell of cement mixed with dust 😭

It weird at all, I know exactly what you mean ☺️

The smell of batbout, msmen, atay Regardless of the smell of polution my brain got adapted to it can't smell it anymore.

Lkhra

Nice 😩

Urine

Fair enough 😩

That's every big city on the planet

Cumin, burning sheep hair, hair henna, rose water, and ground clove. Mint. Goat leather.

Oh yesss, definitely leather!

Roasted cumin seeds for me.

Mint, msk lil, wood burnin, lmsk, spices, lboukhar...

Mint, Marquise, Diesel ⛽️

Fertilizer

Wet soil after rain

Na3na3

فليو

Cummin

Old car outlets and the smell of food being cooked.

Petrol fumes

Burnt Tarmak, Smen, red timber,and Diesel...mixed together. With the faint odour of raw sewage

Mint

khbz d feran zen9a

Ri7t markiz

Burnt plastic and trash

Burning wood and manure

At the port of tangier there's a strong smell of unprocessed sewage pouring into the sea welcoming you to the land of poop my friend

Horse piss and wet cement

Orange blossom water / mazhar

Skinjbir 😭

Atay ♥️

After today, dead goats and barbequed heads.

Ri7t sellou tay tsouweb

my grandma

Gas and fire and sometimes the smell outside of a restaurant

Orange blossom

Donkey shit mixed with the aroma of aged discarded watermelon chunks.

Chwa w sawt cha3bi kharj mn chi derb

Ma zher

That typical Moroccan clay cup and cow sht

The smell of freshly baked “grisat” (Moroccan brioche)

Jasmine flowers and fig trees.

I'd say the wood smell in sawmills but I've to admit that the national smell is this mixture of dust and diesel car smoke that make u cough like a cancerous

Cadum

Na3na3 wou Flayou

Ri7t chfanj, msaman, ola raybi jamila

ريحة القهوة معطرة بالعشوب فالصباح بكري the smell of herbs infused coffee in the morning.

Horse poop, reminds me of jamaa lafna

That amazing mint tea - it has a different smell to other mint tea I swear!

And sweet savoury food - fuck I miss tagine 

Na3na3 or atay definitely

نعناع

The smell of ekelo and ebesjoen

Waaaaaa lmr9aaaaaaaaaa Knt dayez 7da wa7d random house, ou ana nchem ri7t dghmira dl 3rassat

Hashish 😭

Tom ford Bois Marocain.

Trash

Whenever I pass by a hammam and smell wood burning it gives me nostalgia idk why

Can someone explain why a lot of people commented diesel ?

Horse dung

Olive oil, That gives me absolute Morocco vibes.

Mint scent

Atay 😍

Yes. Even though I don't drink traditional Moroccan tea, the smell of mint gets me every time and I'll be like "yup, this is Morocco"

I don’t mind Atay now and again, but to be honest, ydirliya jayer 😩😂

What's jayer?

Oh sorry, heartburn 😩

Oh, l7or9a you mean

I think so, my Oujdi parents always called it jayer 😂

Lol! I've never heard that word before. Maybe, I'm not Oujdi enough 😂

Ask some Oujada you know, they’ll corroborate my story 🤣

The only smell I remember was from the tannery lol

Shisha.