
What is the secret to an evocative smell description?
Many languages have very few odour-related words, so conveying what a scent is like requires knowing your audience
by Giulia Martina
Giulia Martina is a philosopher of perception and mind, currently a postdoc at the University of Tübingen in Germany with a project on olfactory dysfunctions. She is interested in our sense experiences, and how we think and talk about them.