Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Noticing Spring Smells?
Overcast skies, Cold nights and yesterday briefly even hailstones. Ending of April without enough spring sunshine.
So it's a good time to read the Guardian's Country Diary column. Especially on 25 April - online with a photo of Monk's Dale in Derbyshire. But what most enthuses the author, Ed Douglas, wasn't flowers but smells. Not scents, not perfume, but smells. Because he was on about wild garlic. And how crushing a leaf under his nose brought a sense of wellbeing.
So yesterday I was sniffing around Tottenham High Road. There were nice smells - from restaurant kitchens. But that was about it. Anyone else catch a whiff of some special spring aromas?
Tags for Forum Posts: aroma, seasonal changes, smell, spring
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Permalink Reply by Hugh on
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In this digital age, still the least transmissible and perhaps least championed of all our senses.
An interesting question. I pondered it for a while and could only think of one overwhelmingly nice spring smell over the past couple of weeks; that was a untraceable sweet flower fragrance, the provenance of which I was unable to track.
Am I alone in needing to scrabble so hard to answer this questuion?
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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Brushing past my Choisia Ternata always releases its leaf scents, which are sharply aromatic - not everyone likes it. Looking forward to its flowers in a couple of weeks, when it scents the whole road.
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