Sick as a Dog
Scent Talk
Hey all, I once again took a small headspace vacation, and this time I came back to the body having covid.
As I slowly recover my senses, I wanted to talk about how not having them for a few days affected me. Specifically scent, because all I have to say about having no taste is that it’s weird and that I’m craving a steak.
Scent is really big for bio-wolves. The olfactory center is the part of the brain that processes smells, and wolves’ olfactory centers are the size of a human’s fist, whereas humans’ olfactory centers are the size of a pea. Wolves can smell the gender, health, and mood of an individual.
Obviously, I cannot do this, but scent is still important to me. My sense of smell tells me more basic, but still important things. It tells me whose belongings are whose, it tells me when there’s dog shit that has to be cleaned at work, and it tells me about the person the scent belongs to.
You can tell a lot by someone’s scent. Is it natural? Does it smell like home or is it unfamiliar? Have they used perfume or cologne? If so, what do the notes tell you about them? Is it sweet? Spicy? Woodsy? Do they have a signature scent they put off or wear, or do they take on the scent of what’s around them?
I personally enjoy both natural scents, and synthetic. Someone’s natural scent is them at their purest form. Someone’s choice of fragrance is how they like to see themself and how they want others to see them.
For example, I have a natural smell that is quite full and hearty, and is consisted of my home and my surroundings. (Not unwashed, dirty scent, rather clean and freshly washed scent.) But I like to put on spicy and woodsy smelling deodorant and cologne when I can.
What can this tell you about me? Well, my natural scent is a collection of my surroundings, things I’ve picked up from my home. And my synthetic scent tells you I want to be seen as rugged and outdoorsy. It compliments my lycanthropic nature, I think. Maybe a bit too stereotypically haha.
(This is a big reason why I love the miscecanis community, I love people picking out their scents and seeing what that says about their personality. I can imagine the specific scents of the users as I look at their posts.)
I feel like smell is an overlooked sense in the alterhuman community. Creatures always talk about taste and wanting to eat carcasses, and sight and wanting night vision. I just want to sniff everything and have my nose tell me if you’re healthy or not.
