smell

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A man behind me was rustling crisp packets for a while, with the smell of artificial flavouring wafting over. [notebook: Virgin Trains service to London Euston 10 March 2004 2pm]

The smell from a cheese and mushroom panini has been replaced by cheese and onion crisps… Someone has bought some smelly food. Ham? A strange gammon or beefburger smell? It fades as [I am enveloped by] the man's aftershave next to me. I feel too close... [notebook: Virgin Trains service to Lancaster 12 March 2004 7pm]

There is a pervading smell of smoke... the plastic on the seats and framing the windows seems a little too yellowed... The buffet seems to be doing well; breakfast presumably - I can smell meat cooked with grease. [notebook: Midland Mainline service to St. Pancras 7am]

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ethnographic guide

The smell of food extends a traveller into other travellers, mixing their journeys. It is a potentially forced entangling of travellers. To avoid invading other travellers, be wary of particularly pungent foods (for example cooked meat and fragrant cheese flavours).