All human history in a fragrance
by Mark Cocker from Environment | The Guardian on (#15K77)
Blackwater Carr, Norfolk The smell of which I speak is, in a sense, the scent of all human culture
As my poor mother's eyes mist over with cataracts, I give constant thanks for my own sight. This morning as I heard wild swans bugling faintly high over the house I thought also of friends who now have to wear hearing devices in their ears.
Yet what of our sense of smell? Isn't it, of all senses, massively underrated?
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