Sense of Smell

Blog 4

The majority of people would prefer to give up the sense of smell; though I believe it is critical to our state of being. , The sense of smell if more important than one might think. No doubt we rely heavily on our sight and no one would want to jeopardize one’s vision. We rely solely on our vision. .

However, everyday we use our sense of smell more than one would notice. Personally, I would be lost without my sense of smell. Not just because smell is related to taste, but I feel my sense of smell helps me recognize my loved ones and my surroundings.

For example, I could recognize my mum’s smell in a sea of a million people. It is the smell that brings me to a safe place. As I child my mum would play tennis on Tuesdays. One day she was playing tennis and I patiently waited for her on the bench. A breeze seemed to blow by and I felt a little chilly. So I moseyed over to her tennis bag to look for her sweater. But as to my dismay I noticed her tennis bag was in a pile of other tennis bags!!! How was I to find hers? My five-year-old self however had a very sharp sniffer so I smelled every single persons bag until I was able to locate my mums! There is no doubt that this is a prime example of the importance of smell. The scent of my mum has always been one of my favorite smells and still is to this day of age 20.

On a more primal level, scent helped us avoid eating poison. The sense of smell and taste together has helped us stay away from danger, “It is easy to see how these two senses may have worked in tandem in early human development, given the importance of avoiding poison.” (Green 7) However, over the years the sense of smell has evolved from not only smelling poison but to also relish in delicious foods.