“Long Winter, Sense of Smell 長い冬、においの感覚” [English and Japanese”

avatar
(Edited)

A5FF9158-9A4B-418A-8316-E83B0F59CB15.jpeg

BB877639-591A-411D-998E-ABADA27A54E9.jpeg

“Long Winter, Sense of Smell”

Who said this winter is going to be mild!? I heard someone said so before winter. I was happy to hear that. On the other hand, I was telling myself “Don’t believe that too much otherwise I am going to be disappointed.” I should’ve listened to the warnings inside of me. Hahaha.

We still have heavy snow here. We still have to do snow shoveling. I feel “Enough!” as usual around March. However, I smell spring a little through this heavy wet snow. Do you have a strong sense of smell? I do. My sense of smell is pretty strong. For example, I have sensitivities with smells of seasons, sickness, emotions, incense, chemicals, weather, houses, food, countries, flowers, plants, people, animals, nature, smoke, and more. Sometimes I can’t stand sensing strong smells but sometimes I feel good with nice smells. I also switch off this sense and become insensitive of smells if it’s too much for me.

Back to sensing the smell of seasons, this sense makes me feel good. I smell spring at the end of winter, I smell summer at the end of spring, I smell autumn at the end of summer, and I smell winter at the end of autumn. It’s not connected to food or atmosphere. I just strongly smell the change of the seasons. It’s an exciting thing when I smell spring or summer. Conversely, I feel a bit sad when I smell autumn or winter.

Anyway, I surely smell spring even though we have quite deep snow here. I can’t wait to smell spring more!

“長い冬、においの感覚”

今年の冬はマイルドだと言ったのは誰でしょうか?冬がやってくる前にそんな話を聞いて、喜んだ覚えがあります。でも、「あまり信じちゃだめ、もしそうじゃなかったら落ち込むんだから。」と、心の中の自分が忠告してきたにも関わらず喜んでしまいました。やっぱり自分の感を信じるべきでした。

まだ雪が深々と降っています。雪かきもいまだに必須です。3月にもなると「もう雪はたくさん!」と毎年のように思います。でも、このベタ雪の中、ほんの少しだけ春のにおいを感じるのです。みなさんは強いにおいの感覚をお持ちですか?わたしの嗅覚はけっこう強いです。例えば、季節・病気・感情・お天気・お香・化学薬品・家・食べ物・国・花・植物・人・動物・自然・煙などなど様々なにおいに敏感です。時々、あまりにもにおうので耐えきれない時もありますが、いい香りの時は嬉しいです。あまりに感じすぎて困る時は鈍感になって、においのスイッチのようなものを切ることもあります。

季節のにおいの話に戻りますが、季節のにおいを嗅ぐのは好きです。冬の終わりにかぐ春のにおい、春の終わりには夏のにおい、夏の終わりには秋のにおい、秋の終わりには冬のにおい。これは食べ物や環境のにおいとは違います。ただ、単純に強く季節の変わり目のにおいを感じるのです。春や夏のにおいをかぐのは楽しいことです。逆に、秋と冬のにおいをかぐのは少し淋しい気持ちがします。

というわけで、こんなに雪深いのですが春のにおいを確実に感じます。もっとたくさん春のにおいを嗅ぐのが待ち遠しいです。

152E80BE-62E8-440D-9731-20E37C7628D3.jpeg
FE9921CE-D952-4687-9F68-C90CFE85F0FE.jpeg
Heavy clear-looking icicles are hanging near the windows.
重たくて透明なつららが窓のそばにぶら下がっています。

9FA32AD6-53F4-41DF-B411-9EAE0297F215.jpeg
I’m sure that Dude also smells spring!

ドュード君も春のにおいを嗅いでいると思います!

AAC2272F-11ED-4F4F-B375-8B45FEDF2D8E.jpeg
I like to see the surface of snow after a big snow storm. It’s like a smooth cake with whip cream.

吹雪の後の雪の表面を、見るのが好きです。生クリームのケーキのようななめらかな表面です。

B0D80E0C-DC9D-475A-BB10-895D8F94EAEC.jpeg
I can feel the sunshine is also changing little by little!

太陽の光もちょっとずつ変化してきているのを感じます!

9DF20842-1E00-44FB-8DEE-F7D2E92CCEA0.jpeg
My Site: https://koto-art.wixsite.com/mysite-1/home



0
0
0.000
3 comments
avatar

Smells are important to me. I love cooking after all, and while tasting the soup/sauce/gravy is nice, just smelling it can give a good hint of the end result too. I think most people have a good sense of smell, but some of us don't know what we are smelling. Like a friend of mine who claimed that cucumber doesn't have a smell because it's 98% water. Well, the remaining 2% can still smell, right? So I gave her one glass of plain water and one glass which had had several cucumber slices in it, but I removed them, and asked her to sniff them.

"OMG, they are different! Is THIS cucumber smell? I love it! I just didn't know it was cucumber! I thought it was your perfume!"

I don't use perfume very often, and when I do it's cedarwood or sandalwood based. Which the same friend said "That woody smell, I thought it came from your bookshelves." 😹

When the snow is gone and spring really arrives, I smell all the leaves that fell off the trees in the autumn and have started to turn into soil. I know it's a spring smell, but my brain thinks "winter is coming."

0
0
0.000
avatar
(Edited)

Yeah, smells are very important for sure! I enjoyed reading your smell story and your friend’s story as well.

"That woody smell, I thought it came from your bookshelves."

Your friend story is hilarious! As you said, they smell something but smells are not so important things for their lives I guess.

0
0
0.000
avatar

I'm sure there are things that are important to her that I'm missing too! But because they aren't important to me, I can't guess what they are 🤷‍♀️

0
0
0.000