Ah...beutifull Singapore. directly outside is the smell of incense...which the chinese residents burn continually. Along the street is the distinct smell of jungle foilage. ..Near the shopping malls are food cafes...and all sorts of differant smells pervade....BBQ...fish...soup...In little India..or China Town..the outdoor food courts.. and open-air vegatable stands pervade the senses with exotiic blends of hanging meat..and vegatables. At the "Halal "- (muslim) resteraunts..I mostly detect currie...and mint. Every woman that walks past smells very fresh and clean...not perfume...but fresh clothing and skin. At the port citys...the outdoor wet markets smell of fresh vegatables...and caught that day fish..Absent is the smog and pollution of detroit..(my hometown)...as well as any major industry smell. I highly reccomend this country as a point to visit within anyones lifetime. despite what aklim says about it.

My wife and I spent 20 years hitching and working around the world and I must admit that to us cities in the more undeveloped countries smell the best. Certainly there are often smells that are not the best but over all these countries have great smells, esp. in the markets.

New Orleans An aged mixture of urine, blood, alcohol and vomit dashed with the sweet smell of creole and delectible seafood preparation.

We bottle Houston's air and sell it to the rest of the country as a powerful insecticide.

I was trying to think of the main place that left an impression on me-and everyones favorite pirate just reminded me, Driving to my Grandma's house in Pasadena Tx, after crossing the bridge over the channel thah my granfather worked on(east side of Houston) and just past the power plant as you are heading up the elivated freeway-thru pasadina twards Deer Park--The stench of the papermill out near the San Jacinto battleground monument combined with the refineries knocks you in the nose like a 2by4.

I don't know of any paper mills, but there is a huge Shell refinery on one side of the San Jac Monument and a Chevron plastics extrusion plant on the other side, both are known for their pungent-ness, especially the Shell plant, which is probably the biggest polluter in Houston. Interesting picture, Pasadena-Houston on the left, Texas City, below right. I don't think those are clouds.

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It's not bad depending on where the wind is blowing. I live SE of downtown, so if we have a wind coming in from the north, the air will smell like coffee from the old Maxwell House plant. If it's coming in from the east or SE where the plants are, ugh!

Ahh yes--Plastic extrusion, That brings back another memory of the battleship Texas permanently docked at the battleground. on the Battleship wasthe oddest vending machine I have ever seen that would crank out a hot plastic formed souvenir plastic miniature of the battleship or the monument obelisk-out of a plastic I learned many yrs later is called menton!

Yes, we point it all north-bound. One of the amazing sights here is on a cloudy day, puffy little white clouds pause over the smoke stacks, as if at a filling station, and get puffed full of nitrous oxides, and about a million odd chemicals that end in the suffux "thane", and then glide on off directly towards Ohio. Oh, how they must love the rain.

I live in Galveston county, south of southeast Houston, however I work right in the thick of it, in beautiful downtown Texas City, where we all pray every day that BP or Valero doesn't blow the town up again.

Well, I just farted in my city, so I guess my city smells like $hit. :cool::cool::cool:

One of the most intense smells I ever experienced was in the bayous of south Louisiana, where I happened to find myself down wind of a "Pogy" (sp?) processing plant. Pogies are some kind of fish which are caught for fertilizer, I believe. Certainly not caught for people food. This was in the late 70's, I don't know if those plants are still around. Picture yourself sticking your head in a barrel full of rotten fish which has been sitting out in the hot sun for a few weeks.

Rgds,
Chris W.

We're always sending something to Ohio. After Ike hit, it's remnants drifted up to Ohio and did a considerable amount of damage up there.

The worst I've ever experienced was, and still is, the incredibly misnamed city of Mt. Pleasant, Texas, which has to be the most unpleasant place in Texas. You can smell the place for miles before you ever see it. It is the home of a huge rendering plant owned by Pilgrim's Pride - at the center of it is a huge cesspool where carcasses of dead animals trucked in from all over Texas are thrown in, to ferment into god knows what. Roadkill, animal control victims, dead agricultural animals, slaughterhouse waste, from the whole state of Texas all in an open pit, where apparently the animals are ground up and then mixed with water, which becomes the base stuff for all kinds of industrial products. The stench is horrendous, if you drive thru the town, your car and clothes pick up the stench. Pilgrim's Pride also operates a food processing plant nearby, into which the same stench wafts, so needless to say, after observing the whole set up, I am not too crazy about buying their food products anymore.

or Vail.. the air at the top of the mountain is so crisp and clean

It's mostly innocuous, typical old-growth suburbia so depending on what's in bloom when it generally smell of trees/plants. In the winter there are just enough woodburners where it takes on a subdued woodstove smell, unlike in areas where burning is more prevalent and it can get overpowering.

Throw that all out the window if the wind is blowing due South and we can a whiff of Hartford's sewer processing facility and/or the trash-to-energy plant's trash storage area which "doesn't smell" according to the state and the trash authority who approved its construction. :rolleyes: Fortunately that's only 6 or 8 times a year.

Considering we're just south of Hartford it's actually not bad at all. Probably due to the fact that there's nothing going on in Hartford except paper pushing.