Often, while I'm walking I'm scribbling notes that later even I can barely decipher: impressions of atmosphere, smells, sights, sounds, snatches of conversation.
"No photograph can capture the beauty of this bewildering place," Mr. Perry writes, "the fleeting impressions and smells, the chasms of cascading leaves, and the islands of ornamental plants awash in the airy sea". Like any good biologist, he is intrigued by the evolutionary processes that, over several hundred million years, created the intricate world of the canopy.
Her reviews tend to blur together in a smudge of laudatory adjectives, as perfumes blur into a general impression of perfumeyness after you've smelled too many of them.
While it's not mandatory, you'll still make a better impression if you smell fresh.
As they were leaving, they did actually see Robert Duvall, and Trudy did an impression of him saying the line "It... smells... like victory," from "Apocalypse Now.
The jurors were asked to gain an impression of the stinking atmosphere in the cellar by smelling a number of objects taken from the prison and passed round in a box.
In addition, time and place were described through sensory impressions: smells, sounds, general atmosphere (milieu) and aesthetics.
So when you talk to this girl, you'll smell like a rose and she'll get an awesome impression of you.
Morgan's first impression of the royal residence at Kensington was: "Bloody great big house, mansion, palace... you could almost smell the money".
Some questions were designed to assess the farmer's personal opinion or to capture the subjective impression of the interviewer (e.g. assessment of ammonia concentration in the air: score 1 = no ammonia smell detected, score 2 = ammonia smell detected, score 3 = high ammonia concentration causing eye irritation).
