tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125354955146250762.post7036313581653783979..comments2024-02-20T16:10:31.948-07:00Comments on First Nerve: American Smellscapes: Southeast TexasAvery Gilberthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18104017679971839738noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8125354955146250762.post-46819560748213282732009-01-31T09:57:00.000-07:002009-01-31T09:57:00.000-07:00Have you seen http://www.nioibu.com/a Japanese "Sm...Have you seen http://www.nioibu.com/<BR/>a Japanese "Smell Club" web site that is mapping smells around the world? Click on a place on the map (160 so far) and it tells you what you can smell there. All the smells are interesting and some sound wonderful. As listed in an AP new story:<BR/>*steam coming out of a rice cooker<BR/>*scent of verbena near a monastery (Paris)<BR/>*incense, grass, dirt and wild dogs (Ayuthaya, Thailand)<BR/>Others, I'd just as soon miss:<BR/>*used socks in the summer<BR/>*cats with halitosis (Kamakura, Eastern Japan)<BR/>* a toasty odor of cow dung (Fujisawa City, southwest of Tokyo)<BR/><BR/>So far, the site is only in Japanese, with no English translation. Drat.Kathrynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14109729908423909234noreply@blogger.com