By broadcasting formulae of aromatic chemicals, she says, aliens could reconstruct all sorts of whiffs that help to define life on Earth: animal blood and faeces, sweet floral and citrus scents or benzene to show our global dependence on the car.
I sort of got a whiff of it working with Rachael Harris (in this film and) Don Cheadle in Hotel for Dogs.
Perhaps it is the atmosphere: offered at 8 AM when you are standing in a mauve dentist office where the potpourri and wicker grows like a jungle...and the Styrofoam appears again, only this time bringing forth the decaf of some sort and the whiff of Drakkar Noir or Windsong.
It has the whiff of the sort of unctuousness white sportswriters displayed in days past when writing about black athletes like Dick Allen in Philadelphia in the 1960's, Muhammad Ali soon after his conversion to Islam or Jackie Robinson once he was freed from his agreement with Branch Rickey to act like a pacifist college student at a 1960 lunch-counter sit-in.
This is not just to do with cost; the would-be Silicons elsewhere are also acquiring a whiff of the same sort of atmosphere the links between universities and geeks, the transfer of ideas, the bars.
If they even get a whiff that Groh is some sort of Parcells puppet, they will tune out everything he has to say.
Villar is campaigning strongly on his credentials of being from a poor background (a sort of Filipino Joe Biden) but has constantly had the whiff of corruption and dodgy dealings follow him.
A different sort of geek might be drawn to "Orchestrion," given its whiff of Victorian futurism, a hallmark of the steampunk aesthetic.
Yet the bid has a whiff of the 1980s about it, the sort of deal where duff management gets kicked out for swift improvements.
That said, Celsi cautioned that Clinton would need to conduct a different sort of Iowa campaign than the last, which suffered from a distinct whiff of entitlement.
