Smell The Roses

It is a scientific fact that smell can call up memories and powerful responses instantly.

Smell is one of the most important senses and yet writers often miss the opportunity to use the olfactory to its full effect. Close your eyes and inhale. Describe scents like Richard Price does in his latest novel Samaritan": "Straightening up, he was struck with a humid waft of boiled hot dogs and some kind of furry bean-based soup that threw him right back into tenth grade.
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