Completed challenge

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Thanks for completing the challenge 'Make sense of scents' (theprose.com/challenge/13877). There were some fascinating takes on the world of smell. I don’t feel compelled to announce a ‘winner’. To me, writers read, writers explore, writers examine. To say we enjoy one piece of writing is not to discount another. Apples and oranges. Let’s support one another.

I hope that focusing on this often overlooked aspect of description will not only enhance your writing prowess, but that you will pay closer attention in your daily lives to the scents that enrich our experience. If you are inspired to take it further, try describing one specific scent without comparing that scent to another—it is hard! Most adjectives used for smell embed a comparison already: earthy, mouldy, smoky, and so on. We can clearly distinguish the smell of coffee from the smell of beer (well, perhaps not empty nosed WhiteWolfe!), but what specifically identifies that scent?