Smell is a funny thing.

Quite often a smell is powerful enough to trigger off memories and emotions. As part of cleaning my car i bought an air freshener that said 'New Car Smell' and i wondered if that was actually what my car smelt like in 1998. Then gradually it reminded me of someone elses car and where we went when i first got in it - which was a day trip to North Wales Hospital in 2004.

Often when exploring the forgotten ruins of the country (and beyond) they have a certain smell that tells you that you've arrived! Cane Hill has a smell all of its own, something a little more than 'old knackered building smell'. When we first found a way into 1 of its sealed off ward blocks that hadn't been opened since 1990 it was surreal, but part of its whole atmosphere, and something you couldn't capture was the overwhelming smell of disinfectant that made it feel a lot more like it was still used.

My question is, if we live in a world of technology and constant research into new methods of just about everything - why can't you capture a smell, like capturing a photograph. Photographs remind me of what i've seen but there's something missing.

*the ramblings of a madman*