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Originally Posted by Seadog Driftwood
I'd imagine that a lot of the potential of smell as a part of TF is lost due to the relative meagreness of scent-related terminology in human language. Even the term "sweet" covers a huge range of smells and tastes, and qualifiers like "sickly sweet", "honey-sweet", "almondy", or "rosy" can only narrow the field so much; a dog's nose, however, might identify far more subtle shades of scent than any human language could convey.
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Not TF-related, but 'Calvin and Hobbes' had two strips about animals' words for smells. Hobbes described the warm scent of burning wood (or was it leaves?) on a snowy winter day outside being 'brunky' and 'very brambish' due to the humidity, along with 'snippid' for the scent of wet leaves, and Calvin's scent as 'terrible'.