Smells and Bells

 "Smell - The Underdog of the Senses" By: Bridget Dresser   Helen Keller, no. 8                Scent is often looked at as one of the lesser senses because it isn’t deemed a necessity to daily function . Especially in the modern day, scent hasn’t had to be a sense that gives us lifesaving information about our environment except on the off occasion that t here’s a gas leak. While scent might not hold the survival importance it once held before the era of indoor plumbing, it still  offers us a subtle layer of sensory input that enriches our lived experiences , especially spiritual and religious ones. As Deborah Green demonstrate s in The Aroma of Righteousness, rabbis often “employed aromatic images to propagate their social, theological, and political claims.” Similar to Green, I argue that scent is far more influential i n life than we acknowledge or are even aware of. As we discussed in A Natural History of the Se...