Truffles are hard to describe, so people have tried. But it's seductive. It gets into your bones somehow and you want to pursue it. I was seduced by tha first trufflein italy. There're many beautiful evocations of the scent,. A gasoline, garlic, a strange pine. Like one at one of th immediate responses you have when you smell that first truffle is, i'm fascinated. I'm fixated. You can't quite understand why, because it's not a standard, deliciousness type smell. And clearly they've figured out like what dry an animal, crazy but it's surprising.