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Originally Posted by mobertol
If I could choose -I can honestly say I prefer the smell of salt on the wind over the good "country" smells that are round here today  |
Having lived in the country for 18 years I got very good at working out what species of poo was being spread
But we also had haymaking and harvest and wet grass after rain.
Now I live a few yards from the sea and I can honestly say I rarely smell it. Maybe because there's no water around for a lot of the time... but when we do get a scent it's more like seaweed than sea air.
The smell I really associate with the sea is the smell of diesel as one boards a ferry or cruise ship about to set off across the Channel or North Sea or wherever... I find that very evocative. Also fish from boats in a small harbour - perhaps because I was brought up with the smell of fish as my grandad worked all his life on the fish market.