The Smell Test(s)

TAoN No. 100: Author Jude Stewart on keeping an olfactory journal — and improving your nose. Plus a new icebreaker, and more.

Smell is often an underrated sense — although at times we simply can’t miss or deny its power. Writer Jude Stewart recognized the potential in exploring how smell works and what it can mean, and made it the subject of her latest fun and illuminating book, Revelations in Air: A Guidebook to Smell. A tour of the olfactory, it’s part history, part science,…