#so you're trying to describe a purely idiosyncratic amd internal experience in a language that does not posess many words for it
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The fragrance people are out these doing some of the best experimental language out there and I for one am.delighted. "haute plasticine poison"! What a terrific combination of words.
#i think its mostly because unlike sounds and colors#scents are extremely subjective and personal#vastly more difference between individual human's chemoreceptors than our rod/cone setup#so you're trying to describe a purely idiosyncratic amd internal experience in a language that does not posess many words for it#describing a perfume is one of the final bosses of the English language
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”#i think its mostly because unlike sounds and colors#scents are extremely subjective and personal, #vastly more difference between individual human's chemoreceptors than our rod/cone setup, #so you're trying to describe a purely idiosyncratic amd internal experience in a language that does not posess many words for it, #describing a perfume is one of the final bosses of the English language”
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#i think its mostly because unlike sounds and colors #scents are extremely subjective and personal #vastly more difference between individual human's chemoreceptors than our rod/cone setup #so you're trying to describe a purely idiosyncratic amd internal experience in a language that does not posess many words for it #describing a perfume is one of the final bosses of the English language
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