Smell

I’ve just finished reading the smell section of Diane Ackerman’s A Natural Histroy of the Senses and I learned an amazing number of fascinating facts. The Book talks about a disorder called anosmia which means that the person lost her sense of smell. (Or never had it.) It’s interesting to me that when someone is blind or deaf, we can tell quite easily but I’ve never even thought of someone losing her sense of smell before. There even is an Open Smell Directory Project for people who suffer from anosmia. Quite interesting how many of us won’t spend time thinking about something that we can’t see. Or is it just me?