Scent Makes a Place How the desert taught me to smell

“Similarly, a #smellscape is more than the list of #chemicals found in a #location. It’s a #poetic map of the world, fed to us through our oldest sense": buff.ly/UGaIxup

via @nautil.us
#SenseOfSmell

Outside the Nature House the #smellscape opens in a strong accord of methylbenzodioxepinone lake water and isobutylamine marine notes, with lighter intermittent cabbagey sulphur dimethyl disulfide and phenol creosote.

The #smellscape opens with a damp woody accord of strong vetiveryl acetate, geosmin, and phenolic notes of rubbery smokey vapor. Intermittent wafts of rich fishy isobutylamine and skatole appear. Weak phenylethanol florals.