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The Five Senses | Smell
April 27, 2025·33 min·3 clips
Craig explains how 'something stinks' and 'smells fishy' become powerful idioms for detecting dishonesty in business deals.
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A calm, practical lesson in the English vocabulary of smell.
The episode keeps things narrow and useful, treating smell as a set of small distinctions rather than a grand theory. It lingers on aroma, fragrance, bouquet, and musky, then tests those words against bread, wine, perfume, olive oil, and Coca-Cola.
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