The 'smelliest' cities on the planet (3)

4. San Francisco 旧金山

Limited to its peninsula, San Francisco's scent is as sharply defined as its borders: soft clouds, smooth pine, sharp eucalyptus, and cold ocean. Depending on where you go, you can add to that mix grass and the heather-like smell of scrub (the hills); old wood used in the housing stock (especially on the block where the Painted Ladies stand); and a weird dry dampness that is cool and a little isolating. Sometimes the city's perfume is mixed with the heady scent of dry California desert. It may be the most beautiful-smelling skyline in the world.

因为受到半岛地形的影响,旧金山的气味和它的边界一样分明：柔软的云,光滑的松木,锋利的桉树,和冰冷的海洋.你去往不同的地方,便会混合草和石南的气味；家用的历经沧桑的木材（尤其是那些脂粉聚集之处）的气味；奇怪的燥湿气味,凉爽又有些冷漠.有时,城市的气味还混合了干燥的加利福尼亚沙漠的醉人香味.它可能是世界上气味最棒的地方.

3. New Orleans 新奥尔良

In my opinion, you could win the debate over whether Florida is part of the South just based on its smell. (It's not.) Meanwhile, New Orleans exudes the South's signature perfume from every street corner. It's a thick, soporific scent of humidity penetrating wood porches and plaster walls; dead moss; and the Mississippi's fresh water colliding with the brine of the Gulf. Old beer, frying fat, mud, and lush grass are all in there, too.

在我看来,多数人仅根据气息便将佛罗里达划定为南方（其实它并不属于南方）.同时,新奥尔良的每个角落都流露出南方的典型气息,透过潮湿木材门廊和墙壁的一种厚重又具有催眠作用的气息；已死的青苔；密西西比河淡水与盐水相遇的海湾.老啤酒、油炸肥肉、泥以及茂盛的草丛也都在那里.

2. Pleasantville, NY 纽约欢乐谷

Money changes the smell of everything, and wealthy towns where people who want to flee New York's asphalt canyons go to have gardens and lawns have scents as restricted as the covenants guarding their real estate values. Maple, oak, and pine smell cyclically different as the seasons turn, and Pleasantville's scent is based on these trees and their leaves at all stages—green, yellow, dead brown, and budding. When you close your eyes you get grass and then the smell of "America as it was," whenever that might mean for your nose. If Normal Rockwell's paintings emitted a scent, this is what it would be.

金钱改变一切气味,富裕的城镇中,人们想逃离纽约这座柏油峡谷,这里的花园和草坪十分有限,气味十分有限.枫树、橡树和松树的味道随着四季的交替而不同,欢乐谷的气味和这些树以及所有生命阶段——绿色、黄色、枯萎以及刚刚萌芽的叶子息息相关.当你闭上眼睛,就能感觉到草丛,然后就能体会到"美国就是这个味儿",如果诺曼·洛克威尔（Norman Rockwell）的画作会能散发出气味,那就一定是这种味道.