Data for a New York ‘Smellmap,’ Collected Sniff by Sniff - The New York Times

Dennis McBain, a visitor from Scotland, stopped to sniff a trash can at Sixth and Berry Streets during a Smellwalk in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Dennis McBain, a visitor from Scotland, stopped to sniff a trash can at Sixth and Berry Streets during a Smellwalk in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The tour was organized by Kate McLean, a “multisensory artist” and designer from Britain who is creating a Smellmap of the city. Ms. McClean, left, and Alexandra Horowitz smelled a tree on North Fifth Street. Miriam Songster, herself a self-described “scent experience artist,” takes in a pleasant aroma on North Sixth Street. Ms. McLean led the Smellwalkers to their next destination. Meandering down a city block packed with olfactory bombs, they were charged with stopping every so often to smell, as it were, the roses of Bedford Avenue. Ms. McLean’s two dozen followers recorded their smells faithfully throughout the tour. New York can be characterized by “a warm, musty smell that comes from the cellar,” she

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