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This may sound odd, but I had a lot of Indian (south asian) friends when I was a kid and I always wanted my house to smell like theirs. I'm first generation Ukrainian so my house always smelled like cabbage, sausage, and mix of cigarettes and cheap beer. When I was old enough to move out and have my own apartment I tried everything from roasting my own herbs and spices to grind for curry powder to always cooking with cumin, garlic, fenugreek, etc. Nothing worked and I just realized after reading this post how bizarre this is.