The 'smelliest' cities on the planet

The 'smelliest' cities on the planet

10. Dallas 达拉斯

Cities, like people, have their own smell, their own body odors and perfumes that take on personalities. Dallas is one of the strangest scents I have ever encountered. Highways of strip malls and gas stations and exit signs. Insanely wide streets. It's very New World-smelling. It almost has a non-scent scent. Like many cities, you get concrete, car exhaust, and dust. If you really focus, you can pick up on the nearly undetectable Texas live oak. It's best during thunderstorms, though. The crisp smell of lightning and rain and vast flat space pervades and takes on a three-dimensional quality.

城市和人一样,有着它们自己独特的气味和特点.达拉斯的气味是我遇到的最奇特气味之一.大商场和加油站和高速公路的出口标志,异常宽阔的街道,都带着新世界的气息.它几乎有一种没有气味的气味.和很多城市一样,你闻得到混凝土、汽车尾气和粉尘.如果认真感受,你能嗅到微不可闻的德克萨斯橡树,但在雷雨天气时效果最佳.闪电、雨和巨大的空间互相交织,呈现出一种十分清晰的清脆气味.

9. London 伦敦

I agree with Samuel Johnson's oft-quoted "when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford," and while being able to afford London is no small feat, if you just walk the streets, the scent of the city, at least, is free. Mist, rain, peppermint, wet pavement. You can smell the Thames and leather seats and aged Persian rugs. Thank Christ, there's much less cigarette fumes these days. Some people complain that London is a gray scent, but what they smell is actually the opalescent energy of Britain.

我同意塞缪尔·约翰逊经常引用的一句话——"一个人如果厌倦了伦敦,那他就厌倦了生活；因为伦敦有人生能赋予的一切."虽然在伦敦的生活需要大笔的开支,如果你仅仅走在街上,至少城市的气味——雾、雨、薄荷以及潮湿路面是免费的.你能闻到泰晤士河、真皮座椅以及老化的波斯地毯的味道.值得庆幸的是,这些天的香烟味少了很多.有些人抱怨说,伦敦的味道十分灰暗,但他们闻到的实际上是来自英国的乳白色能量.

8. Mombasa 蒙巴萨

I was only in Mombasa for an afternoon, and what struck me was the scent of rough terra cotta baked by the sun, and a dry-ish tropical air that is common in February when I was there. I'm told the smell radically intensifies in the summer when the rains come and things are more green, although Mombasa is never apparently lush. One of my strongest sense memories was of the four-bare-walled stores the Mijikendas and Swahilis kept. They used fluorescent lights, so they had that distinct metallic, old-ish smell places that use fluorescents always have. I could also detect palm oil, the cement dust from the streets, and these strange spices I had never smelled and haven't smelled since.

我在肯尼亚蒙巴萨只停留了一个下午,晒制而成的陶器的气味给我留下了深刻的印象,时值二月的干热空气也十分常见.我了解到在雨季来临之前气味会扩大,城市中的绿色也更加鲜明,尽管平时的蒙巴萨的植被丝毫不茂盛.我最强烈的感官记忆之一当地人开的四面裸墙的店铺,他们使用荧光灯,所以便有着独特的金属气息.使用荧光灯的地方总是充斥着老旧的气息.我还能在街上闻到棕榈油、水泥粉尘的味道,这些奇怪的香料我从未在其他地方遇到.