About Scentsabilities

Sense & expression…. That's what we're all about here at Scentsabilities. Our goal is to help you transform words into wisps of scent rising from the page, surround your readers with sounds and colors, and plunge them head-first into the world you're creating.


If you've come here looking for plug-and-play descriptions, you're in the wrong place. We're not going to write it for you, but we will give you a jumpstart. Everyone needs one occasionally. Just days ago, I needed one.

After discussing a single smell with my critique partner for more than 30 minutes we realized something. Two minds working together, no matter how brilliant, can’t come up with all the options. In fact, just coming up with a good handful of viable ones in half an hour was tough. Of course that meant that there was a possibility that the one descriptor that could part the clouds, turn on the heavenly spotlight and make my deathless prose sing like a choir of angels had been overlooked.

Unacceptable.

So our conversation turned to more practical endeavors. Was there a resource we could go to in our quest for the illusive descriptor? Yes! A familiar desktop icon, which would be tattered and well-worn if it weren’t virtual, led me to the internet. A few keywords in the search block and I’d be home free. Alas, I was wrong.

There was no shortage of results, but if they weren’t completely off they were lacking. A few fragrances on a perfume website, sounds listed as part of an article…. It was incredibly frustrating to spend precious moments that I could have spent writing sifting through the junk in search of a gem.

Then and there my partner and I made a pact. We launched an investigation. We committed to doing the research. We’re going to pull on past experience and do the legwork to compile a sensory encyclopedia.

This study of life and the world around us will detail settings, shapes, textures, colors and much more. Anything we can think of that needs describing is fair game. But the world is wide my friends and if we don’t post it then it’s up to you to suggest it.

Something new will be posted four times a week and I can assure you that existing posts will be updated often. Those posts will then be organized in some semi-sane fashion off to the side of the blog. Savvy?

There will probably be exceptions. Vacations, computer death, family emergencies, Ice Road Truckers marathons… You understand I’m sure. However, we are serious about making this into the best possible resource it can be and will put in the time to make it one no one can or should live without.

Image credits: The Five Senses by born-posthumously