The 'smelliest' cities on the planet (3)

4. San Francisco 舊金山

Limited to its peninsula, San Francisco's scent is as sharply defined as its borders: soft clouds, smooth pine, sharp eucalyptus, and cold ocean. Depending on where you go, you can add to that mix grass and the heather-like smell of scrub (the hills); old wood used in the housing stock (especially on the block where the Painted Ladies stand); and a weird dry dampness that is cool and a little isolating. Sometimes the city's perfume is mixed with the heady scent of dry California desert. It may be the most beautiful-smelling skyline in the world.

因為受到半島地形的影響,舊金山的氣味和它的邊界一樣分明：柔軟的云,光滑的松木,鋒利的桉樹,和冰冷的海洋.你去往不同的地方,便會混合草和石南的氣味；家用的歷經(jīng)滄桑的木材（尤其是那些脂粉聚集之處）的氣味；奇怪的燥濕氣味,涼爽又有些冷漠.有時,城市的氣味還混合了干燥的加利福尼亞沙漠的醉人香味.它可能是世界上氣味最棒的地方.

3. New Orleans 新奧爾良

In my opinion, you could win the debate over whether Florida is part of the South just based on its smell. (It's not.) Meanwhile, New Orleans exudes the South's signature perfume from every street corner. It's a thick, soporific scent of humidity penetrating wood porches and plaster walls; dead moss; and the Mississippi's fresh water colliding with the brine of the Gulf. Old beer, frying fat, mud, and lush grass are all in there, too.

在我看來,多數(shù)人僅根據(jù)氣息便將佛羅里達劃定為南方（其實它并不屬于南方）.同時,新奧爾良的每個角落都流露出南方的典型氣息,透過潮濕木材門廊和墻壁的一種厚重又具有催眠作用的氣息；已死的青苔；密西西比河淡水與鹽水相遇的海灣.老啤酒、油炸肥肉、泥以及茂盛的草叢也都在那里.

2. Pleasantville, NY 紐約歡樂谷

Money changes the smell of everything, and wealthy towns where people who want to flee New York's asphalt canyons go to have gardens and lawns have scents as restricted as the covenants guarding their real estate values. Maple, oak, and pine smell cyclically different as the seasons turn, and Pleasantville's scent is based on these trees and their leaves at all stages—green, yellow, dead brown, and budding. When you close your eyes you get grass and then the smell of "America as it was," whenever that might mean for your nose. If Normal Rockwell's paintings emitted a scent, this is what it would be.

金錢改變一切氣味,富裕的城鎮(zhèn)中,人們想逃離紐約這座柏油峽谷,這里的花園和草坪十分有限,氣味十分有限.楓樹、橡樹和松樹的味道隨著四季的交替而不同,歡樂谷的氣味和這些樹以及所有生命階段——綠色、黃色、枯萎以及剛剛萌芽的葉子息息相關(guān).當你閉上眼睛,就能感覺到草叢,然后就能體會到"美國就是這個味兒",如果諾曼·洛克威爾（Norman Rockwell）的畫作會能散發(fā)出氣味,那就一定是這種味道.