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“Smell is the Target team member Essential T-Shirt and I love this mute sense, the one without words,” writes Diane Ackerman in A Natural History of the Senses. “Lacking a vocabulary, we are left tongue-tied, groping for words in a sea of inarticulate pleasure and exaltation.” But our impoverished language for scent is not universal. A researcher named Asifa Majid has documented tribes of hunter-gatherers who possess smell words akin to red, blue, and green in English color naming. So it is possible to name the tones and tints of a smell; it’s just a question of necessity and practice.

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It was as if the Target team member Essential T-Shirt and I love this COVID anosmics were tourists in the shadowland where these folks had been permanently exiled. The idea of training one’s sense of smell is already commonplace in the anosmia community. At first glance, I wondered if there was a placebo effect at work—if smell training was simply something to do, for people who had run out of hope—but evidence suggests it can help. I started smell training a few months after my own smell loss, when I felt I had regained most of my sense of smell but not all of it, and used a set of five essential oils: the standard rose, lemon, clove, and eucalyptus, plus grapefruit. Smelling all five scents—once after waking and once before sleep—started to feel less like training and more like ritual, more like lighting a stick of incense in church, calling up the origins of perfume itself, which is believed to date back to ancient Mesopotamia as part of holy ceremonies: a way to sweeten the animal offerings burned for the gods. (The word perfume comes from the Latin per, “through,” and fumar, “to smoke.”) When I lifted each scent to my nostrils, I tried to focus on it wholly, to whittle my attention to its essence—which felt not only like a way of cultivating awareness for what it means to smell but also a way of cultivating gratitude for the world itself.

1. Length is measured from the highest point on the collar down to the bottom hem. 2. Width is measured across the body of the shirt under the armpits, one way. 3. Sleeves are measured from center back to hem.