There's that intangible spirit.
He does not smell the intangible and evocative matter of which Cuzco is made, but only the odour of stew and excrement.
Every single day, a sound, a smell, something intangible, nudges my memory and for 4 seconds, I am walking through the countryside in Cork, Ireland smelling peat fires or jostling through the market in Marrakech about to bang into a camel head that's hanging down in front of me.
"How to put a value on a home," Mr. Selleck begins, then cites intangibles that include "the smell of pancakes made on a Sunday morning," "the taste of a good cabernet with family at Thanksgiving" and "the power of a bedtime story".
In this case, smells are associated with intangible practices, although they still emanate from a tangible source, as knowledge has no smell.
This work has argued that smells can be considered part of our intangible heritage, and that a definition of heritage smells requires an exploration of the relationships aromas have with other aspects of cultural heritage, such as, local practices and traditions, and language.
For instance, L'Oreal v. Bellure is an interesting case study about whether you can infringe a company's trademarks by imitating the smell or other distinctive, but intangible, elements of a brand.
In this sense, smell can be considered as an intangible property of tangible heritage and inextricably linked to it.
First, researchers [38 42] claim that a service is intangible, not possible to sense through touch, sight, smell, and taste as opposed to goods [43].
However, unlike some food and culinary practices, smells are not recognized in the definition of intangible cultural heritage by UNESCO.
