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[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Smells are very localized

Smells are airborne. They move with the air.

You can walk into a house and tell they’re cooking dinner, just by smells that have traveled 50 feet from the kitchen to the front door.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Dispersion varies widely due to the kind of smell, intensity, and air circulation.

Most smells do not travel 50 feet.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

Most smells do not travel 50 feet.

I have to counter that in my experience most, if not all smells travel 15m. When the wind is right that increases massively.