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alina's avatar

an only mildly related fact that (if you don’t know already) i thought you might enjoy: Garhwali, which is my mother’s native tongue, has many words for oddly specific smells, ranging from the smell of a dog, to the moist smell that permeates from fabric post rainfall :))

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Silopante's avatar

I'd say this thought misses a very important part of the phenomenon, it's not just smell that is lost, every other sense is too; when you're experiencing a sunset, you do so with your whole being, with this much abstraction you're losing the warmth of the sun, the breeze of the wind, the chirping of some passing bird, and the feeling of utter scale of the panorama that is engulfing you.

Not only you should be smelling more things, you should be FEELING more.

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