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What does dragon breath smell like?

I got my hands on MPEG-V standard documents which lets me inject “SEM” (sensory effect metadata) inside .mp4 files which would let me program real world stuff on cues like lights, chair movements, water sprays, etc. So literally if I had a NAS with a hoard of movies and bought the right equipment, i could make 4DX at home.

There’s an effect description named “scent”, which would, obviously, spray some aromatizer or something in the room. I checked out the standard list of scents that can be applied. There are scents like rose, lavender, mint, apples, mixed herbs, but i came across an interesting one which is the one i’m asking for.


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</span><span style="color:#323232;">  Scent of dragons breath
</span><span style="color:#323232;">  Describes the scent of dragons breath
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Maybe this is a weird reason to ask this… I really want to know out of curiosity if this “dragon breath” would be some specific mix of herbs or incense or any kind of room spray. I sense it would kind of be an artificial scent… but idk… really… Would it really work if i coded a “Home 4DX” version of the Hobbit movies?

Motorheadbanger ,

I’d wager it smells like burned nose hair

FooBarrington ,

It actually doesn’t really matter which smell you use. The important part is that you install a small, persistent flame in front of the diffuser. That turns any aroma into dragon’s breath.

TheButtonJustSpins ,

Impending death.

Mothra ,
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Vinegar, Gasoline and Rotten Meat

pewgar_seemsimandroid ,

how much of Minecraft?

Sir_Fridge ,

Was this added for the shrek 4D movie thing? I saw that in an amusement park once. The dragon sneezes in your face.

ILikeBoobies ,

ground dragonfruit

Witchfire ,
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Depends on the color dragon

andrew_bidlaw ,

Would it really work if i coded a “Home 4DX” version of the Hobbit movies?

Are there ways to obtain and refill this pallete of smells and connect them to a home cinema? I guess it would work if you have the hardware and the juice for it.

I imagine dragon’s breath is not unlike a coal furnace, or a chain smoker.

zeppy5d OP ,
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In a software level, it is easy to time effects like smells in a video file thanks to the information i found. The hard thing is to program the hardware.

andrew_bidlaw ,

You are into assembling and instructing that hardware yourself?

southsamurai ,
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Well, there are established fictional descriptions, or indications.

The one that I think would hold up the best would be the way Pern (Anne McCaffrey series) handled it. In that series, the dragons weren’t your typical fantasy dragons, they had been genetically engineered from a smaller creature called “fire lizards”. So there was an attempt to lean harder into sci-fi than fantasy from the beginning of the series, even though it didn’t seem like it.

That’s kinda tangential, but McCaffrey did put some thought into how they shot fire.

The dragons chewed up phosphorus bearing rocks, swallowed them into a special stomach, and the results of that breaking down allowed them to basically belch flames.

If you’re going to ignore “magic” as the source of the breath weapon, then that method makes sense. Since phosphorus sulfide could conceivably be made inside some kind of complicated organ like that, as could other phosphorus based compounds, the obvious choice is for dragon breath to smell like matches.

Now, that assumes you meant what the breath smells like because they breathe fire. There are other versions of dragons that shoot other things. But, more importantly, shooting fire isn’t actually the same thing as breath. It’s a separate process from breathing.

So if a dragon was in front of you, breathing in and out of its mouth, it wouldn’t be ONLY the smell of the fire starting agents. You’d smell the brew of saliva, any leftover bits of food left in the mouth, and likely some degree of “funk” from whatever extra compounds were in the saliva to help it protect the dragon from its own fire.

Imagine a snake’s breath, but spicy ;)

Hazzia ,

mix a compound of snake venom and capsacin as perfume, got it

akincisor ,

My guess is dragons breath is produced by a combination of two glands that produce chemicals that are hypergolic. This is seen in nature in bombardier beetles (which use hydroquinone + hydrogen peroxide).

The smell would certainly depend on the combination of chemicals, but a hot burnt and charred smells are probably common to all possibilities. The unburnt chemicals are likely to be irritants, being either strong oxidizers or reducers.

Overall, even after the main blaze has cooled, I would expect the area (and downwind) to be unsafe for humans and respiratory issues for those exposed to the remnants.

Quereller ,

Hey, this is a unironically a very good answer regarding “real” dragons. Although, the cinema scent would hopefully not be an airway irritant.

108 ,

Kinda like in Reign of Fire

CanadaPlus ,

Well that’s very interesting. I’m guessing this is a proprietary scent that got added to the standard by whoever from the industry.

If I was designing it, it would definitely be fire-y. It would be a bad smell if I was being realistic, full of lizard bile sort of smells mixed in with partial combustion products, but nobody wants to be immersed in that. So, I guess the question is what sort of fire is dragon’s breath?

It’s supposed to be pretty hot, so maybe it’s a metal sort of fire, but then again you don’t really see that in the natural world. Acetylene and friends could do the same, although I’m not sure what that smells like exactly. Maybe I would split the difference between organic and metallic and go with a burning beeswax/hot metal combo, which shouldn’t be too gross.

_haha_oh_wow_ ,
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The only dragon’s breath I’m aware of are incendiary shotgun rounds.

zeppy5d OP ,
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You mean rocket launcher?

Justas ,
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There is a type of shotgun shell that spits a stream of fire when fired.

Omega_Haxors ,

I’d heard that when they breathe fire it’s essentially like lighting a fart.

whenigrowup356 ,

Dragon’s breath is a pretty common name for incense scents, but it seems to vary a bit between different brands. The only common ingredient I saw was that most of them have musk or “white musk”

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