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Distracted by a cloud of incense

Posted by Robin on 4 April 2017 Leave a Comment

The excursion started uneventfully, when I detected familiar fumes of gasoline on Delancey Street, but turning onto Eldridge toward Broome I confronted a pungent, intriguing miasma of garlic, cigarette smoke, rotten melon, roasted meat, and plastic. I trailed this scent to further whiffs of steamed dough and menthol outside a massage parlor, then got distracted by a cloud of incense and darted after it in pursuit—directly into the path of an oncoming biker, whom I admittedly hadn’t smelled coming.

— Bianca Bosker takes a Smell Walk in New York City, using Kate McLean's Smelfie Guide to Smell Walking, which you can download here. Read more at The Graphic Designer Who Maps the World’s Cities by Smell at The New York Times.

The scents of regeneration

Posted by Robin on 8 October 2015 3 Comments

Pamplona’s autumn smellscape reflects the city population’s fixation with food. Glasgow’s winter smellscape is of building and construction, the scents of regeneration underpinned by greasy food particles hanging in the omnipresent dreich, with a highly specific smell of the clockwork orange subway system – damp, metallic sponge is a descriptor, but really it is just the smell of the subway that starts as you descend the inner stairs to the platform.

— Kate McLean, on mapping the world’s scents. Read more at The sweet smell of Amsterdam … and it’s not just cannabis, say odour mappers at The Guardian.

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Garlic, pavement and rubber tires

Posted by Robin on 14 May 2014 Leave a Comment

Public Radio International goes on a "smell walk" in Boston with Kate McLean. The segment is about 5 minutes long. You can find McLean's website at Sensory Maps.

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