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fuzzyjayI am practically "legally blind" when it comes to scent. Anosmic? I think that's the word.
Once when I was in Boston I went to the Science Museum with my brother. The museum had an exhibit on the sense of smell, with different places to sit where you could open compartments and sniff their contents. The substances within were carefully chosen to highlight genetic differences in the ability to smell.
I was unable to perceive the odor of most of those test substances. My brother could.
Maybe this is why I don't suffer when I smell the odor of a skunk? I think it unpleasant, but it also has some good associations for me. It signifies springtime, which in Connecticut was the time of the emergence of that endothermic plant the skunk cabbage.
Once when I was in Boston I went to the Science Museum with my brother. The museum had an exhibit on the sense of smell, with different places to sit where you could open compartments and sniff their contents. The substances within were carefully chosen to highlight genetic differences in the ability to smell.
I was unable to perceive the odor of most of those test substances. My brother could.
Maybe this is why I don't suffer when I smell the odor of a skunk? I think it unpleasant, but it also has some good associations for me. It signifies springtime, which in Connecticut was the time of the emergence of that endothermic plant the skunk cabbage.
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Date: 2007-01-12 08:37 am (UTC)Lilacs are one of the flowers I can detect at a distance. Roses, not so much.