Smells
This is where smell truly becomes an issue for the forces of consumerism. You can certainly experience strong whiffs of an odor, but the sensation trends toward being ambient, not targeted.
why you should be smelling more things
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Experts tell us that smell is the most faithful of all the senses in terms of memory. The smells of one’s childhood still remain within. It is incredible how a simple scent on a street or in a room can bring you back years to an experience you had long forgotten.
John O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
When we smell, we remember. In fact, research has shown that the memories associated with smell are the most powerful, vivid, and emotional of all our recollections.
Maria Konnikova • Mastermind
If anything, I see smelling as a radical act. The more we refocus on our less commodifiable sensations, the more we dethrone the institutionalized primacy of audiovisual spectacle.
With light, you can make some pathetic attempt to preserve it, to take a picture of it. Or like Monet you can paint a cathedral in various hours of the day. He knew what he was doing—the cathedral was only a ruse, a trap for capturing the rays of light. But with smells, no such tricks are available to us, there is no film or recording device, no su
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