Word: scentless
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...installation that in the West, smell is thought of in “aesthetic terms—pleasant or unpleasant,” whereas in other cultures, body smell is an important personal defining feature. “Since our representations of the world are most of the time scentless, this indeed reinforces the social drive for deodorization of the world,” Tolaas wrote in an e-mail. “We can be tolerant in many ways, but this physicality of not being able to stand each others’ smell stops any kind of communication...