smells when travelling

[Tigerlily]

The entire state of Nebraska smell like shit.

 

[spirilis]

The strongest smell/travel association I have is from Salt Lake City. I don't know if it always smells like this, but they day I was there the whole place smelled like death. The lake had a cloud of insects on its surface and a few dead animals floating here and there, and the smell was overwhelming.

Paper mill towns smell pretty bad, too.

Paper mills are horrible smell offenders. There's a paper mill about 13 miles from where I live and every so often the smell makes its way down here, if the wind and humidity are just right. It's like walking outside into a sewer.

 

[mippus]

Belgium smells of cows, to me. You get used to it after a while, but it's quite agricultural.

True, we hardly notice anymore and when we do, we get sentimental about it
Florence smells of water on dusty streets. A very specific smell.
I associate France with the smell of wheat in the North, lavender in the South.

 

[faith]

I associate a number of scents with Russia, but the most peculiar is the combination of fresh bread, raw fish, and cheap chocolate. Most of the small shops where I bought my groceries smelled like that. At first I thought I was going to choke with the awful combination, but after a few months I began to find the strange scent comforting and soothing.

 

[Wolf]

Saudi Arabia - Some kind of really heavy perfume on many men.

 

[skip]

Los Angeles and Philadelphia smell differently (moisture, most likely). The Lancaster area smells of manure (especially the Amish communities).

Had me going there for a minute. We have a Lancaster and I'm relatively certain there are no Amish there!

I can't imagine not having a good sense of smell; it's such a large component of enjoying food and drink.

 

[Noel]

Victoria, British Columbia.

The smell of the ocean, the sand, the brisk winds, the mist, the damp air particularly bombard my senses whenever I'm home.

Especially walking through Mystic Vale.

 

[Veneti]

*smells when travelling*

oh... I thought it was a post on flatulence.

 

[luminous beam]

i remember walking through the streets of "El Alto" in La Paz, Bolivia..."Ciudad Satelite" standing at about 15,000ft above sea level. It's a poor city and as you walk further into it you can smell food at every corner from vendors and then shit, most likely from all the stray dogs in the area...so a good combination of food and shit smells LOL so gross but quite an experience.

 

[Jeffster]

East Texas smells like pine trees, Southwest Texas smells like oil, Southeast Texas smells like saltwater, Central Texas smells like grass.

 

[luminous beam]

other parts of la paz, bolivia smell like eucalyptus leaves due to having many of those type trees planted. apparently it's one of the few trees that will grow in the type of soil and climate that they have.

 

[colmena]

I did the Disney/Daytona thing eight years ago. That's the only time I've been out of England. It smelt very different, but nice, and warm.

I have smelt a similar smell a couple of times in England, and it immediately takes me back and reminds me of Florida.

 

[rhinosaur]

Me and my GF just spent a week in Puerto Rico.

Notable smells:
- Coffee plantation, smells like coffee
- Mud flats near Luquillo, smells like mud
- Ocean waves in San Juan, smells like the sea
- El Yunque rainforest, smells like forest
- These little tree-fruits that they have in El Yunque, which smell and taste like roses

 

[Abhaya]

Probably desert sage. I'm not a fan of the desert but I love that smell, too.

The smell of sage brush after is rains. Is a wonderful smell unlike any other, but I am from Nevada so it reminds me of home.

 

[alicia91]

Florida - humidity and Coppertone
Michigan in the springtime - lilacs and honeysuckle
Sweden - pine forest, grass and briney water
Arizona - mules?

 

[surgery]

the b.o. of french and czech men u__u

 

[Ilah]

Baltimore's inner harbor smells like beer and fried fish and salt water. There is a kind of comfort in the smell - once you get used to it.

Ilah

 

[INA]

Bali smells of Frangipani (plumeria).. It's wonderful.

 

[Wolf]

The strongest smell/travel association I have is from Salt Lake City. I don't know if it always smells like this, but they day I was there the whole place smelled like death. The lake had a cloud of insects on its surface and a few dead animals floating here and there, and the smell was overwhelming.

You got lucky. That's the delicious smell of the lake, which is from dead animals, but nothing you would easily recognize as a dead animal - that's the result of the death of trillions of tiny brine shrimp at the end of their life cycle and the layers upon layers of muck on the bottom of the puddle made up of their decomposing remains. The right time of year, or after a storm that stirs up the muck, and when the wind conditions are right, the entire city will reek.

The airport is so close that a lot less is required for the stench to make it there, and the salt flats have their own unique nasty odor that is slightly different from the dead brine shrimp.

 

[rhinosaur]

So wait, why do people live near a salty lake that smells like death?