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''The Smell of Fresh Rain '' attempts to open our minds to the power and potential of our sense of smell. Barney Shaw, a man armed with only a powerful curiosity and boundless enthusiasm sets out to understand this ever elusive sense and to explore ways to interpret smells in an accessible and simple way. His journey takes him from boatyards to markets via Harrods and his childhood home to uncover the meaning behind everyday scents and to distil the apparently complex nature of smell into language which is accessible and satisfying.
Clearly, Shaw is a man with a passion. His writing is eloquent and rich and he has managed to bring to vivid life the smells of everyday life we often take for granted. This is particularly true when he guides us around Borough market at 3am, the sights and sounds become almost tangible as do the luminously vibrant smells which waft across his eager nose, some deliciously savoury and mouth-watering, some unpleasantly stomach churning. Shaw is also a man with a vision, he hopes to encourage us to become more familiar with our sense of smell, to stop viewing it as an expendable sense and to grasp our ability in all its wonderful, complex glory.
