smell

In Bhutan's Paro, several hundred proponents of the idea are practicing everything from walking meditation to mindful eating -- slowing down to appreciate the taste, smell, texture and colours of food.

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

“I can still smell it now,” he said.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026

At one point, one resident said, the smell of rot was so strong they believed a wild animal had died on a nearby hiking trail.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 31, 2026

As I push through the doors, the smell of chlorine hits me.

From BBC ● Aug. 31, 2026

I can hear laughter and smell smoking meat.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

Instead of being laid out spatially, its wiring works more like a bar code, with distributed patterns of activity representing particular smells or complex memories.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 31, 2026

This new wordmark smells like Le Labo’s Santal 33.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026

But this latest grinding crisis has transformed the sights, sounds and smells of Old Havana entirely.

From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026

Septimus Piesse, a 19th-century chemist, translated sounds into smells, proclaiming an “octave of odors,” the authors explain, “with correspondences between notes and scents providing the basis for harmonious olfactory combinations.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

She smells like a warm summer night and honey-lemon iced tea.

From "Split the Sky" by Marie Arnold

"The lab smelled like a fish market," she says.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 23, 2026

In previous research on dogs, the same brain region has been found to light up when the dogs anticipated a tasty snack, or smelled a familiar person.

From BBC ● Aug. 10, 2026

“I really haven’t smelled it in its prime,” McGraw said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

He was trying to figure out whether to do back, because something about it smelled wrong to him.

From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026

The first thing she registered was the cold and the dirt around her, which was wet and smelled of moss and decay, as if it had only recently been turned.

From "Night Owls" by A.R. Vishny

"The common area smelt of sewage, there was water dripping through the ceiling and there were public toilets out of action for the whole voyage," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 20, 2026

Various types of native fish have suffered declines, including steelhead trout, white sturgeon and longfin smelt.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 21, 2026

Look no further than GameStop’s $56 billion bid for eBay, which is the equivalent of a smelt swallowing a whale.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026

As they probed the earth, they smelt the dirt, looking for the distinctive odour of human remains.

From BBC ● Feb. 25, 2026

Now, as he smelt the herd in the next valley, the blood-urge put new strength in his limbs, and hope leapt within him.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver

Experiencing it firsthand—walking through markets, smelling charcoal smoke and watching people cook—gave him a better understanding of how to build that depth of flavor into his own cooking.

From Salon ● Sep. 1, 2026

“People are seeing with their own eyes, and I think frankly smelling with their own nose,” Mr. Sabet, 47, says in a phone interview.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026

Burbank, the San Gabriel Valley and many other parts of the city and county reported seeing and smelling the fumes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 30, 2026

Emergency workers stood on the charred roof, still smelling of burning, sawing off damaged sections and tossing the debris into a pile.

From Barron's ● Jun. 15, 2026

Was that smoke she was smelling in the air, or was it her imagination?

From "Two Degrees" by Alan Gratz