random admission of the day:

[jade_sabre]

my whole life, when I've read about scents and stuff in books--like, people catching a whiff of this or that--I always assumed that was just Something That Happened. Like, you threw in something about so-and-so's hair smelling like their shampoo or something because that was just another detail about the person you could include.

it wasn't until Malone recently admitted to me that she associates different people with their own scents that I realized that some people actually can smell a shampoo's scent without having to have their nose buried in said hair.

long story short: if you catch scent descriptions in my writing, I'm making it up, and if I can smell your cologne, you're wearing too much.




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Comments

Re: I shall go down in history as the man who opened a door! ~ Leonardo

[fabricalchemist.livejournal.com]

Dude, I have to second this. I can't even make a costume or draw a character without deciding what they smell like, it's super important to me.

On the other hand, fran doesn't have this same appreciation, he has to be right up on something to smell it, so maybe you both just don't have as strong a sense of smell.

Re: I shall go down in history as the man who opened a door! ~ Leonardo

[idiosyncreant.livejournal.com]

People use their senses differently in storing information. Rely on different ones.

You sound a little more over to smell than me: I store that information, but while I could probably come up with a smell for any character I knew well, I don't think about it much.

I had a great time writing a "kinesthetic" character, someone who focuses strongly on touch for perception. These kind of people get stifled a lot, because we don't do touch in polite society in the Western world... but there's a particular verve to their interactions with people when they feel comfortable.

Whoa, sorry. Just a subject I love to think about...

Re: I shall go down in history as the man who opened a door! ~ Leonardo

[jade-sabre-301.livejournal.com]

oh, and you know how they're like "smell is the sense most closely linked with memory"? I think that is false for me. But that fact only occurred to me like two seconds ago. o_O

my roommate is a cuddler, does that count as kinesthetic-y?