Word of the day / week

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I knew this smell but not what it’s called.

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I’ve always called it ‘that rainy smell’.

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Is this the same smell you smell before rain falls? It is like you can sense a storm is coming.

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I have always liked ‘petrichor’ (the word and the smell), but it’s not word that can be easily dropped into a conversation!

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That would surely be ‘ozone’?

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I’m not sure … could increase in humidity trigger the release of those chemicals?

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It’s all in the mind.

If you associate rain (or anything) with a particular smell, knowing that it’s about to rain will cause the brain to imagine the particular smell.

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This is a hi-fi forum. Anything my ears/nose tells me is definitely real and not influenced by psychology… :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Hifi sniffers should have a few nomenclatures of our own.
Fresh vinyl. ?
Heated tubes ?
Box fresh cables ?
New speaker varnish ?

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Smells like teen spirit to me!

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There’s a particular odour when you get indoors after being in the cold. Is there a name and reason for that or is it just BO?

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Safety

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This subject came up over a coffee at the farmers’ market on Saturday; then this morning I was introduced to misophonia.

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I will tell the diesel generator operatives three or four streets away of my condition. Roads,drains,water pipes,generalised rack and ruin.

I am sure to get the usual ‘do what?’ In response.

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So misophonia is a synonym for jazz! :grin:

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Back in the day when I was an EHO specialising in noise pollution the people I felt for were those that heard specific frequencies from industrial units and sub-stations (grid). I was able to measure the sound they heard with frequency analysers, but could we get anyone to attenuate the source? No - because of the excessive cost of doing so, and the fact that not enough people were affected to make the noise a public nuisance.

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Over reaction to vinyl surface noise is a condition.

Luckily I’m not a sufferer. :grin:

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Jocoseness.

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Azoic

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Nebulaphobia … came up in a book this morning. Just like the sound of it.