But snow has a scent, and researchers say that scent depends on what’s in the ground and the air. And as both the atmosphere and the land are getting warmer, the scent of snow is getting stronger.
Johan Lundstrom, a professor of clinical neuroscience who describes himself as a “smell researcher” at Monell Chemical Senses Center in Philadelphia, said because snow’s smell reflects the impurities in the air, the flakes in Wisconsin smell different from snow in Sweden, and from snow in a city.
— Read more in Climate change is altering the smell of snow at The Washington Post.
So what they’re say is, Lorelei Gilmore really *can* smell snow.
I did not watch that show but I take it that she smells snow!
Quote from my daughter on this article
” snow basically smells like water. Oh… and clouds” ?
Demeter Snow really does smell like snow at the end of winter.
Yes! Christopher Brosius came up with that one.
Makes perfect sense to me that snow has a scent. After all, people talk about petrichor all the time.
Yes, exactly.