The 'smelliest' cities on the planet

The 'smelliest' cities on the planet

10. Dallas 達拉斯

Cities, like people, have their own smell, their own body odors and perfumes that take on personalities. Dallas is one of the strangest scents I have ever encountered. Highways of strip malls and gas stations and exit signs. Insanely wide streets. It's very New World-smelling. It almost has a non-scent scent. Like many cities, you get concrete, car exhaust, and dust. If you really focus, you can pick up on the nearly undetectable Texas live oak. It's best during thunderstorms, though. The crisp smell of lightning and rain and vast flat space pervades and takes on a three-dimensional quality.

城市和人一樣,有著它們自己獨特的氣味和特點.達拉斯的氣味是我遇到的最奇特氣味之一.大商場和加油站和高速公路的出口標志,異常寬闊的街道,都帶著新世界的氣息.它幾乎有一種沒有氣味的氣味.和很多城市一樣,你聞得到混凝土、汽車尾氣和粉塵.如果認真感受,你能嗅到微不可聞的德克薩斯橡樹,但在雷雨天氣時效果最佳.閃電、雨和巨大的空間互相交織,呈現(xiàn)出一種十分清晰的清脆氣味.

9. London 倫敦

I agree with Samuel Johnson's oft-quoted "when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford," and while being able to afford London is no small feat, if you just walk the streets, the scent of the city, at least, is free. Mist, rain, peppermint, wet pavement. You can smell the Thames and leather seats and aged Persian rugs. Thank Christ, there's much less cigarette fumes these days. Some people complain that London is a gray scent, but what they smell is actually the opalescent energy of Britain.

我同意塞繆爾·約翰遜經(jīng)常引用的一句話——"一個人如果厭倦了倫敦,那他就厭倦了生活；因為倫敦有人生能賦予的一切."雖然在倫敦的生活需要大筆的開支,如果你僅僅走在街上,至少城市的氣味——霧、雨、薄荷以及潮濕路面是免費的.你能聞到泰晤士河、真皮座椅以及老化的波斯地毯的味道.值得慶幸的是,這些天的香煙味少了很多.有些人抱怨說,倫敦的味道十分灰暗,但他們聞到的實際上是來自英國的乳白色能量.

8. Mombasa 蒙巴薩

I was only in Mombasa for an afternoon, and what struck me was the scent of rough terra cotta baked by the sun, and a dry-ish tropical air that is common in February when I was there. I'm told the smell radically intensifies in the summer when the rains come and things are more green, although Mombasa is never apparently lush. One of my strongest sense memories was of the four-bare-walled stores the Mijikendas and Swahilis kept. They used fluorescent lights, so they had that distinct metallic, old-ish smell places that use fluorescents always have. I could also detect palm oil, the cement dust from the streets, and these strange spices I had never smelled and haven't smelled since.

我在肯尼亞蒙巴薩只停留了一個下午,曬制而成的陶器的氣味給我留下了深刻的印象,時值二月的干熱空氣也十分常見.我了解到在雨季來臨之前氣味會擴大,城市中的綠色也更加鮮明,盡管平時的蒙巴薩的植被絲毫不茂盛.我最強烈的感官記憶之一當?shù)厝碎_的四面裸墻的店鋪,他們使用熒光燈,所以便有著獨特的金屬氣息.使用熒光燈的地方總是充斥著老舊的氣息.我還能在街上聞到棕櫚油、水泥粉塵的味道,這些奇怪的香料我從未在其他地方遇到.