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Arabella Purity Winterbottom
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Originally posted by Huia:
Oh, the snow on the Rimutaka's - I'm homesick.
I shall think of you as I drive over them tomorrow - I'm hoping for no snow, though.
The other essence of Wellington is the smell of native bush - kind of peppery and damp, and very fresh.
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Ariston
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College Park would have a base of petrol from US1 and the Beltway, as well as "barnyard" (aka compost and cow) from the ag research facilities at the University and the farms just outside of town; a midrange of vanilanin from decomposing books in the library, frying fish, and cheap Chinese food overlayed with spilled beer; and top notes of cherry blossom and cheap, sleazy undergrad.
Brookland smells in some ways the same (cherry blossoms, traffic, fried stuff, libraries, and undergrads), but also of church incense, a different blend of church incense, hot asphalt, and the local brewery.
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Huia
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Posted
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Originally posted by Arabella Purity Winterbottom:
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Originally posted by Huia:
Oh, the snow on the Rimutaka's - I'm homesick.
I shall think of you as I drive over them tomorrow - I'm hoping for no snow, though.
The other essence of Wellington is the smell of native bush - kind of peppery and damp, and very fresh.
Now I'm even more homesick. I mainly saw the Rimutakas in the background, driving through snow isn't something I enjoy.
Not a city, but travelling west out of Christchurch, through Arthur's Pass and into Westland you get that same damp bush smell of rainforest.
Christchurch desperately needs a rainforest - maybe we could do something about it as part of "The Rebuild" (which is the horrible phrase being used here).
Huia
[ 06. February 2014, 08:45: Message edited by: Huia ]
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betjemaniac
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Originally posted by Cottontail:
Kidderminster, where I used to live, ponged of burned sugar beet. It smelled like burned roast beef. Not nice.
No no no, I spent the first 19 years of my life there and sugar beet during the "campaign" (localese for harvest) just means home. It's like soil, sugar, and rubber all burning together, and is more pleasant than it sounds. British Sugar closed a decade ago mind so it's all in the past now.
Stouport, the next town along, smelled strongly of vinegar until the late 1980s.
Uttoxeter, although not so much these days, was Elke's Malted Milk Biscuits.
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Campbellite
Ut unum sint
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Galveston = rotting fish. One of the foulest smelling places on earth.
Lexington, KY = The heavenly aroma of curing tobacco when the warehouses are full.
Memphis = Every other street corner has a pit cooked pork BBQ joint (It would be too high class to call 'em "restaurants") And each one has its own pit slow-cooking the succulent little piggies.
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ken
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If Galveston smells bad, its for the same reason as Venice does (the only two times I ever went to Venice it stank a lot worse than Galveston did the one time I went there). It's not the sea or fish or even the foul mud or last night's street litter first wetted with rainwater and now baking in the sun on the island itself. It's the heavy industrial infrastructure, chemical works, oil refineries, and naval bases, on the coast facing the island. When the wind is coming from the mainland, so does the stink.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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There are areas of Phoenix, and its surrounding suburbs, that smell like manure tinged with ammonia, ripened in the sun. This is due to the large tracts of artificially irrigated and fertilized farmland in the area.
They say that Pittsburgh used to smell like ketchup due to the Heinz factory that was one of the mainstays of the city's economy, but when I lived there I never noticed it.
New York has a tendency to smell like dust from the brake shoes of subway cars.
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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Chicago has different odors depending on what part of the city you are in (like any other city, certainly). If you're on Michigan Avenue, you get the smell of bus exhaust fumes competing with the occasional fresh breeze off the Lake. On the north side of the city there is a cocoa factory, so you might get lucky to have a blast of airborne chocolate.
In the summer, the Lake Michigan beaches would be littered with the bodies of dead alewives and so have a horrid fishy smell, although that has declined due to species management.
When I was a kid growing up in the far southern suburbs, we were 30 miles due east of Gary, IN and if the wind was out of the east you could smell the steel mills. Between environmental protections (good) and the overall decline of the steel industry (not so good), that has gone away.
[ 10. February 2014, 16:10: Message edited by: Mamacita ]
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jedijudy
Organist of the Jedi Temple
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When I'm traveling some of the inland roads in my neck of the woods, depending on the time of year, the orange processors can smell heavenly! There's one not too far from LaBelle, and one in Lake Wales. The aroma is orange cake! The drawback is that it makes me hungry.
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
Dressed for Church
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Oh, yeah, we have orange trees in Phoenix too, and the aroma of orange blossoms is intoxicating!
I had an apartment once with an orange tree outside my bedroom window. I put a fan in the living room window and set it to blow air out the window, in order to draw the orange blossom aroma in through the bedroom window and all through the apartment.
A swarm of bees would congregate outside the living room window -- the aroma drove them absolutely bonkers!
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Bob Two-Owls
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In a few weeks the Derbyshire dales will reek of wild garlic, it makes the whole place smell like fresh garlic bread cooking in the oven. Garlic with a faint hint of sheep is what home smells like to me.
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Moo
Ship's tough old bird
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Originally posted by Mamacita:
When I was a kid growing up in the far southern suburbs, we were 30 miles due east of Gary, IN and if the wind was out of the east you could smell the steel mills. Between environmental protections (good) and the overall decline of the steel industry (not so good), that has gone away.
{tangent alert}
When I lived near Nashua, NH, the city had a serious problem with air pollution. A careful analysis of the components of the dirty air showed that it matched the components in the smokestack emissions in Gary. The winds frequently carried the stuff to Nashua.
{/tangent alert}
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