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Surrounded by the Smell. An Attempt to Define Smell and Sense of Smell from the Perspective of the Aesthetics of Landscape

Summary/Abstract: The smell and the sense of smell is one of the most undervalued senses which define our relationship with the outside world. As the sense of “contact” it confirms the materiality and the reality of the world; as a “practical” sense, it gives us the basic orientation in the world. The sense of smell plays a key role in the evaluation of the environment and the way we situate themselves in it and experience it multi-sensory. Everything that surrounds us give out a smell that we perceive as pleasant or unpleasant, arousing pleasant associations or disgust. We react to it by the power of first impressions. Its cultural validity confirms two-step process of deodorisation – i.e. elimination unpleasant odours from the public and private space and aromatisation – introducing artificially produced pleasant smells. Smell surround us and affect the evaluation of the environment. In this sense, the smell identifies a place. The association of ephemeral smell with atmospheric of a place indicates that the smell should be recognized as an important element of the atmosphere introduced by G. Böhme.

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