I find it so hard to comprehend why so many people dismiss their sense of smell and treat it as something unimportant. Smelling things around me is how I have always been processing the world, it's of the same importance as vision or hearing, tasting or sense of touch. It's an important stroke to the portrait of any human, animal, plant, building, or object - it carries an essential information. From smell of human skin we can tell sometimes whether they are healthy, or if they have bad habits or poor hygiene; or maybe they love the same perfumes as I do, or we can tell where they have been.. I am not going to expand here on the smell of cats, as these creatures smell simply delicious, they groom themselves so well, and there's nothing more soothing as the smell of cat's freshly licked fur! Buildings carry aromas as well, their smells can tell stories! I have a habit of sniffing everything I encounter, it's the same as looking at something, most of the time it's fun, but sometimes it can be fatal: last Sunday I was doing some gardening and had to use rooting powder for the first time. I had to sniff it of course, you never know what you're missing, if you don't stick your nose everywhere, do you?! To cut the long story short, it took me a good couple of hours to recover from the olfactory trauma that rooting powder "made of natural ingredients" caused me.
Oh no! I’m so sorry to hear of this distress that smelling the world around you has caused. I’m glad you’re on the mend and, more importantly, that you appreciate your sense of smell so much!
I find it so hard to comprehend why so many people dismiss their sense of smell and treat it as something unimportant. Smelling things around me is how I have always been processing the world, it's of the same importance as vision or hearing, tasting or sense of touch. It's an important stroke to the portrait of any human, animal, plant, building, or object - it carries an essential information. From smell of human skin we can tell sometimes whether they are healthy, or if they have bad habits or poor hygiene; or maybe they love the same perfumes as I do, or we can tell where they have been.. I am not going to expand here on the smell of cats, as these creatures smell simply delicious, they groom themselves so well, and there's nothing more soothing as the smell of cat's freshly licked fur! Buildings carry aromas as well, their smells can tell stories! I have a habit of sniffing everything I encounter, it's the same as looking at something, most of the time it's fun, but sometimes it can be fatal: last Sunday I was doing some gardening and had to use rooting powder for the first time. I had to sniff it of course, you never know what you're missing, if you don't stick your nose everywhere, do you?! To cut the long story short, it took me a good couple of hours to recover from the olfactory trauma that rooting powder "made of natural ingredients" caused me.
Oh no! I’m so sorry to hear of this distress that smelling the world around you has caused. I’m glad you’re on the mend and, more importantly, that you appreciate your sense of smell so much!