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Half of the listed smells of old Paris are hardly natural smells. Anyway, I don't think people are being 'delicate'. Instead, as we clean up our act, smaller o
by ip26 6y ago
Half of the listed smells of old Paris are hardly natural smells.
Anyway, I don't think people are being 'delicate'. Instead, as we clean up our act, smaller offenses become comparatively large, and just as noticable. The reverse of nose-blindness. For example, over the years, the cleaner the air in my house the more readily I can discern wildfire smoke on the air.
Most of the time nature is not particularly rank. The smells of pine or grasses or dirt are quite subtle.
- l-p 6y ago> The reverse of nose-blindness. I had the pleasure to experience this in Paris during the first lockdown which was pretty strict. With the lack of cars on the streets the pale brown smog went away and for the first time in probably a century another smell became perceptible: sulfur. Always nice to know that behind the fumes there's another thing ruining your lungs, this one was attributed to agricultural pollution.