odourscape

plural odourscapes · alternative odorscape

1. An olfactory environment; the various odours in an environment.

   We are unable to appreciate the odorscape of a cat or dog.

   1977, J. Douglas Porteous, chapter 9, in Environment and Behavior: Planning and Everyday Urban Life, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, page 236

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   For millennia, right up until less than one hundred years ago, horses were an essential part of daily life—the smell of horse manure an undercurrent of every human odourscape.

   1999, Jonica Newby, chapter 3, in The Animal Attraction: Humans and their Animal Companions, Sydney: ABC Books, page 79

   Synonyms: scentscape, smellscape