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What Did The Past SMELL like?

Tony Robinson's Cunningcast

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The Smell of Mother's Milk

This is Mother's Milk - the smell of human breast milk. The Japanese government has a list of 100 fragrant places that are protected by theJapanese government. Oh, it's a lovely smell. I don't think I would have made that imaginative leap to the elves before dusk. But I can remember I actually did one of those Japanese bathing things once, which was supposed to represent something very inspirational and good feeling. All it reminded me of was going to school in the autumn. That smell of the rotten old leaves.

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