odourscape

English

Alternative forms

• odorscape

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^[1], 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^[2], 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.