odourscape

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

odour +‎ -scape

Noun

odourscape (plural odourscapes)

  1. An olfactory environment; the various odours in an environment.
    Synonyms: scentscape, smellscape
    • 1977, J. Douglas Porteous, chapter 9, in Environment and Behavior: Planning and Everyday Urban Life‎, Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, page 236:
      We are unable to appreciate the odorscape of a cat or dog.
    • 1999, Jonica Newby, chapter 3, in The Animal Attraction: Humans and their Animal Companions‎, Sydney: ABC Books, page 79:
      For millennia, right up until less than one hundred years ago, horses were an essential part of daily life—the smell of horse manure an undercurrent of every human odourscape.
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