Rec | A WEAK SENSE OF SMELL

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long covid be damned, but my ability to sit in most subway cars without experiencing the gut repulsion of revolting odors other passengers suffer through is a goddamn super power

@tunnelvisiontv

Mar 20, 2024

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enjoying your sense of smell

my sense of smell is terrible. it borders on nonexistent, to the point that i literally can barely smell anything most of the time. when i can though, and when it's good, it's always very nice to be able to smell. enjoy the good smells around you, even if they're unconventional (gas, smoke, sharpie, etc)

@hellwurld

Jan 31, 2024

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sense of smell

I think our sense of smell is one of the most beautiful things about our bodies. You can find me standing in a pine forest, huffing cardamom, taking pics of soaps in restaurant WCs, getting a headache in the fragrance section of the bespoke homegoods store. Some art incorporates smell, such as paint that effuses the scent of shoveled soil or an orchestra accompanied by scent cannons firing plumes across the audience, but I cherish this intangible gift of ours because it’s one that mass media can’t reach. It’s amazing that it’s connected so closely to our memory -- that you can smell a cologne or the inside of a tent and instantly hallucinate a school dance or a family camping trip you forgot about or, at the very least, didn’t mean to think about so vividly today. I know this will sound privileged and silly, but as a relatively young person my biggest fear from the pandemic wasn’t death — it was losing my sense of smell. I just know that it’s something I would miss so much. It enhances taste and experience and I would go crazy without it. here is a very incomplete list of things I think smell good: -tomato vines -Shoyeido friend of pine incense -garlic, raw and cooked -anise -palo santo -coffee, raw and cooked -armpits (lemme get in there) -briney ocean -tennis balls -old lifejackets -bergamot / patchouli stuff from L:A Bruket

@Shadowbeni

Mar 7, 2024

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olfactory memory

Smell is better at making you remember than any other sense. A simple scent can make you feel that your grandpa is standing near you on the subway platform, can transport you back to 7:58am running late through the halls of your high school, and even inspired Proust to write an entire reflective novel on childhood after smelling a madeleine (Swann's Way), and by writing this inspired researchers to study the phenomenon.