Downtown Smell Workshop

Last Saturday at the HABEAS LOUNGE, we charted an olfactory path through the city. We wandered the city and its smells, relishing in the complex chemicals emanating from a pharmacy, the rough wood of a city tree, a broken bottle of champagne, and the warm moist air coming through the subway grates. We also had a blind smell test at the local restaurant Botega Louie.

We returned to the LOUNGE to document and map our adventures in smell, sharing and visually representing the scents we encountered which evoke the variety of experiential journeys available when deeply investigating DTLA at a sensory level.

photos by Linda Pollack