When Paul Theroux visited Belfast in the early 1980s, he knew at once that it was an awful city: "It had a bad face - mouldering buildings, tough-looking people, a visible smell, too many fences".
If you can amiably pull off those interactions without having a visible boner or smelling like you eat cat food, chances are somebody will eventually think your knowledge is vaguely "cool". .
While in the main concert hall and the musicians' locker rooms behind it, Schweigert said he could not see any visible damage but could smell smoke.
From useful primers at those sites, I also learned that my film was in excellent condition considering its age (no mildew, visible breakage or vinegary smell).
From the graveyard the blast zone wasn't visible though a faint smell of oil floated on the spring breeze.
The exposure was defined as smell and visible signs of mold, water damage inside construction, and persistent windowpane condensation in dwellings with double-glazing.
Home inspectors are especially keen on detecting these problems, which are quite visible through discoloration, musty smells, mildew and water leak stains.
Let the car cool down before you check coolant levels, but if you have no visible leaks or detectable smells, you probably don't have to worry.
And although there was a faint briny smell, the only visible marine life was in a low stingray tank, off to one side, which was partially covered by a tarp.
There is no traffic noise, no visible roads and the air smells of pine.
In contrast with the mentioned Jorvik museum, where smells illustrate Viking life 1000 years ago, an exhibition in the Reg Vardy gallery in Sunderland in 2008 presented smells without a visible source, just in a white, clean room.
