Then we climbed past patches of corn, banana trees and other tropical staples like a kind of tuber called cocoyam, interspersed with coffee trees laden with tiny flowers scented like orange blossoms.
"The fruits and flowers of the farmers' market: tiny pinpricks of scent.
They bring ice water, too, and as soon as it looks as if you might have a bead of perspiration on your forehead, they offer tiny cold towels scented with eucalyptus or a spritz of Evian.
Hopefully I need not explain to the reader exactly why mystical energies, scents, tiny needles, or neat-looking crystals all fail to cure the sick.
In order to attract rodents and marsupials, the truffle, like a tiny underground perfume factory, produces up to 50 different chemicals that combine to create a scent powerful enough to penetrate up to three feet of earth.
The scents are played back by a tiny device called a scent synthesizer that will activate various combinations of chemicals to create each aroma.
Once, you've done that, if you want your stuffed animal to smell good, put a tiny amount of a scent that you like best, and then apply one squirt of it on the brush and the stuffed animal.
The system uses an Intel Edison board and tiny servos to squirt scent into your face.
I put a tiny note inside too, scented with the last of my Tocca perfume that Bruno loved so much.
Or make a tomato sandwich, scented with tiny celery greens, goat cheese and crisped shallots.
