I had a bit of an unusual diet (for me) yesterday. I exclusively ate bread, nuts, hummus, and various fruits including a few dates at the end of the night. When I woke up this morning I was a bit sweaty and my partner asked me if I was making coffee or like making caramel candies or something. I had no idea what she was talking about and joked, “it’s just my natural musk”. Anyway turns out it was. I legitimately smell like fresh caramels.
Eat more dates?
Specifically I had banana, peanut butter, sourdough, cinnamon, pear, cashew, pistachio, bell pepper, hummus, and cucumber.
Coffee is the pit of a fruit, and a light roast will keep some of the sugars while caramelizing others. Those show up in coffee as the tart and fruity flavors you taste. Given what you ate I think those fruit sugars combined with no bitters (smoking, alcohol, etc) that drove the coffee and caramel smell.
I do be smokin