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  1. Describing Smells in Writing: Mastering the Art of Sensory Language

    The art of describing smells in writing can elevate your work to an immersive experience for readers. The human sense of smell is closely linked to memory, making it a powerful tool for writers to evoke emotions and transport readers into the world they've created. Capturing the essence of a scent in words can be challenging, but with a ...

  2. How to Describe the Sense of Smell in Your Writing

    Contact Sales Learn More. The human sense of smell is intimately connected with memory, which makes it a useful tool for writers. Scent is an incredibly evocative detail to explore in creative writing, but too often writers neglect the possibilities that scent descriptions open up in terms of establishing setting and emotion in their work.

  3. 75 Words That Describe Smells

    fusty - smells old, dusty, or damp. high - an old-fashioned word that describes a strong flavour and smell. malodorous - scented, aromatic, redolent, fragrant, stinking. musty - unpleasant, stale, and not fresh. nasty - unpleasant smell. nauseating - a smell that causes disgust, loathing, or revulsion.

  4. 200+ Ways to Incorporate Scent: A Word List for Writers

    Use scent to your advantage. Spritz aroma throughout your writing, as you might air freshener in a stale room, to stimulate readers' olfactory centers. Alternative Nouns for Scent. The word aroma conveys an impression of something pleasant, whereas smell could refer to unpleasant scents. Choose carefully.

  5. How to Describe a Smell in Writing: 3 Nose-Tickling Examples

    Example 2: The smell of petrichor. Petrichor is the smell of rain after a long period of dry weather. Stewart starts her description like this: Petrichor, the smell of parched earth after rain, is immersive, roomy enough to move around in. Its bright mineral tang is edged with vegetal green. There's a hint of sourness, haloed by fresh water ...

  6. 9 Ways to Describe Scents in your Book

    3. Create Disgust. One of the best things you can do in your writing is create a reaction in your reader. If they react in any way, it means your book is affecting them. It means they aren't bored. One way to get a strong reaction from your reader is to make them feel disgusted.

  7. 30 of the Best Words to Describe Smell in Your Writing

    01 Buttered. Buttered is a good word to use, because foods such as popcorn, shrimp, and chicken drenched in butter tend to have that unmistakable buttery smell. It is good to use as butter is a very common ingredient and its odor is known by everyone so it'll be easy to portray this smell. E.g.

  8. How to Describe a Smell in Writing: Tips and Examples

    Qualities of a smell can be broken down into the five cardinal tastes: sweetness, sourness, bitterness, saltiness, and umami. You can't exactly smell these, but you can experience the sensation of these tastes. This is how you might describe these smells when writing: Sweet: sugary, saccharine, sickly. Sour: balsamic, tart, acidic.

  9. How to Write the Sense of Smell

    The following quotes are from writers who use the sense of smell effectively. "The smell of a grow room is the scent of transpiration, of fecund exertion. It's the trapped sweat of a high school locker room, the funk of a hockey jersey steaming on a radiator.". Bruce Barcott, Weed the People.

  10. How to Describe a Smell (with Sample Descriptions)

    5. Use adjectives. Adjectives can describe the general, overall quality of the smell. Wispy, rancid, airy, musty, stale, fresh, putrid, faint, light, floral, and acrid are all adjectives that could pertain to smell. [4] Smell origins may take the form of a noun (the smell of leather) or an adjective (a leathery smell).

  11. Describing Smells

    Ephesians 5:2. Describing scents in a scene adds depth to writing by enabling the reader to relate. Citrusy - characteristic of citrus fruit in scent. coppery - smelling of copper. earthy - smelling like earth. fishy - smelling like fish. floral - smelling of flowers. flowery - a flowery smell reminds you of flowers. fruity ...

  12. How to Use the Sense of Smell in Your Writing

    How to start: Set your timer for 10 minutes. Write the prompt at the top of your page and begin writing without thinking—go where the very first thought takes you. Keep your pen moving. Breathe. Don't stop until the time is up. Suspend judgment.

  13. Smell of Nature: Descriptions that Appeal to the Senses (2024)

    Here are some words that can describe that deep yet pleasant scents of nature: - Ambrosial: succulently fragrant or sweet. - Earthy: the smell of freshly dug soil. - Damp moss: the forest aroma after being steeped in the rain all day long. - Floral: richly sweet, flowery scents. - Myrrhic: a pleasant myrrh fragrance.

  14. Writing sense of smell

    Sensory writing practice: Research olfactory words from one of these areas and gather inspiration for your work in progress. Use them to deepen the description or a character's perceptions. Consider the sound as well as the meaning of the words, and notice how they feel when you read them to yourself. Try "citrus", "musk", "caramel".

  15. Descriptive Words for Scents: List of Smell Adjectives

    Ensure your reader can vividly imagine the scents you're describing with these adjectives for smell. ... As you continue to create interesting scenes within your writing, utilize this list of descriptive words to help engage readers in your stories. Get ready to bring entire universes to life with your words.

  16. 75 Words to Describe Smells

    75 Words to Describe Smells June 5, 2017 May 14, 2019 ~ elenajohansenwriting One of the more common pieces of writing advice is to engage with all five primary senses in a scene.

  17. The Most Creative Words to Describe Smell

    A smell is produced when molecules come into contact with the receptors in our noses. Anything can produce these molecules, including foods, beverages, flowers, plants, animals, and even people. When molecules enter our nose, they interact with receptors there. This causes neurons to send a signal to our brain. This is how smell appears to us.

  18. Writing Tips: How to Describe Setting Using Smell

    Photo by Sébastien Jermer on Unsplash. Once the giggles subsided, I got some serious answers. "Saltwater." "Salt." "It smells tangy." "Salty.". Okay, so they are only Year 7s, but even as adults we have a tendency to fall back on the same descriptions. But writing about "the salty tang of the air" is pretty generic, and ...

  19. 36 Views of Moscow Mountain: Teaching Travel Writing and Mindfulness in

    As a professor of creative writing and the environmental ... emphasizing shape, color, movement or change, shadow, and sometimes sound, smell, taste, and/or touch. The goal of the journal entries, I tell the students, is to begin to get them thinking about close observation, vivid descriptive language, and the potential to give their later ...

  20. Creative Writing: Our Choices for 'The Second Choice" by Th.Dreiser

    Creative Writing: Our Choices for 'The Second Choice" by Th.Dreiser A few weeks ago we read a short story "Second Choice" by Theodore Dreiser which stirred quite a discussion in class. So, the students were offered to look at the situation from a different perspective and to write secret diaries of some characters (the author presented them as ...

  21. Top 30 Adjectives for City (Negative & Positive Words)

    When you set out to describe a city in writing, start with its tangible aspects: the towering skyscrapers touching the sky, the weaving roads filled with the cacophony of honking cars, and the people moving about in their everyday hustle. But a city is not just its infrastructure; it's also the heart and soul, the emotions it evokes in its ...

  22. IELTS Reading: gap-fill

    IELTS Reading: gap-fill. Read the following passage about creative writing. New research, prompted by the relatively high number of literary families, shows that there may be an inherited element to writing good fiction. Researchers from Yale in the US and Moscow State University in Russia launched the study to see whether there was a ...