Health
On the scent of a brain-teaser – Sydney Morning Herald
As the dreaded virus challenges our senses, our vocabulary for scents and smells is proved lacking.
Barney Shaw recognised the challenge. A former civil servant in Britain, Shaw is the author of The Smell of Fresh Rain (Icon, 2017), a pungent meander through the noses elusive universe, a project prompted by his blind son once asking, Dad, what does 3AM smell like?
Wheres the aromatic descriptor for baling twine or charcoal?
The more the author pondered the koan, the deeper went the mystery. What does anything really smell like beer versus honey? Dill versus sage? Dencorub vis-a-vis Deep Heat…
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