“We live in a world of smells, where only the absence of smell is remarkable.” – R.W. MONCRIEFF
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The City of Zurich operates 107 public bathrooms and restrooms. Scent Culture Initiative explored the scentscape of selected facilities. Using a semi-structured questionnaire a number of restrooms were identified as outstanding and hence labelled as “approved by scentculture”.
The genesis of private property has been a recurring theme in political philosophy since ancient times. In his essays on the five senses the French philosopher Michel Serres proposes a “smelly theory of private property”:
Food odors frequently provoke and trigger public debate on olfactory tolerance. There is a current case on food odors in Italy.