Feb 21, 2018
The Challenge Of Describing Scents In Your Writing
The Challenge Of Describing Scents In Your Writing
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Of all the human senses, I find smell the hardest to use in writing. And yet, it’s one of the most powerful, as a number of studies have shown it’s hard-wired into our brain, and a shortcut to all sorts of strong emotions. So why is it so hard to find the right word for a smell?
Turns out, I’m hardly the only one in this predicament. As a recent Economist article on scentsrecently…
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