I can imagine the entire Shadowfen smelling rotten. Cyrodiil should be the smell of dead bodies, salty tears and blood. Wait, what.

My orc has such an underbite I think he just smells his breathe none stop....

I do wanna even imagine what that smells like.

Well basing off what it smells like when I play, Tamriel has a very pungent, herbal smell to it.

Smells like the tears of salty PvE'rs

It smells like wet pirates... In Abah's Landing!

I can confirm. I found myself in some sort of tomb with Men'Do today, and despite it being full of cobwebs and decay, not to mention the giant Minotaur, the place had a pleasant scent and everybody involved had a pleasant fashion sense, too.

Population density is not very high, and there are sewer systems in place, so while we may not be dealing with pre-industrial London or something like that, I doubt we are also dealing with people dumping out chamber pots into gutters -- even if there ARE no toilets. (Technically, since there are no toilets, and nobody poops, there are also no sewer smells, and the sewers are just rainwater drains...)

There are no mechanical means of transportation adopted widespread to replace living mounts, so both cities and rural areas would have to deal with the resulting horse/guar clods. Optimally, there would be sanitation workers keeping the city streets clean for the high-born, while living quarters in poorer areas would likely be less well-kept. Rubbish (food scraps, etc) would also be something assaulting the senses if organized sanitation was not in place.

Enchantment would likely assist here, as magicka-augmented incinerators would be an appropriate method to dispose of such things. Likely in poorer sections, or in trade quarters, since the scent of things like leather tanning is already fouling the air.

Scents of people would depend on culture as well as climate. The Khajiit seem more attuned to scent, so I would expect them to embrace natural scents as identifiers, or to use things like herbs, oils, and essences to send certain messages or perhaps in response to certain olfactory trends.

Otherwise, I don't see any particular race smelling worse than others. Orcs who spend all day at the forge, for example, aren't going to smell any worse than Altmer who spend all day at the forge. Unless you stop to bathe every hour or something, you're going to work up a sweat no matter who you are. Culture and what is considered acceptable -- and affordable -- is going to influence how frequently one washes off the day's grime. Individuals will take or break what is the social norm.

Remove people from the equation, and you fall back to more organic scents. Woodland areas will smell like the forest, etc.

What really makes me wonder are the areas that are non-organic, but not influenced by the races of Tamriel. For example, what does Coldharbor smell like? Is it a chill scent, like a snowstorm? Or is there a smell of decay? What does asure plasm smell like compared to water (since it serves as a similar "swimmable" fluid). For that matter, I wonder what it tastes like... (I try not to think too hard on that one though).

clayandaudrey_ESO wrote: »

KimoBitz wrote: »

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Fallen_Ray wrote: »

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With the vast amount of dead (and undead) corpses laying around (and walking) everywhere... I imagine it does not smell very nice

Is this a serious question, OP?

It probably smells like most pre-medieval to high-medieval societies:

-Like crap when walking around farms.
-Like crap when walking around cities.
-Nothing notable in open wilderness unless you're near a swamp, in which case, like crap.

I bet Ogrims fart quite a lot

Eiagra wrote: »

What really makes me wonder are the areas that are non-organic, but not influenced by the races of Tamriel. For example, what does Coldharbor smell like? Is it a chill scent, like a snowstorm? Or is there a smell of decay? What does asure plasm smell like compared to water (since it serves as a similar "swimmable" fluid). For that matter, I wonder what it tastes like... (I try not to think too hard on that one though).

In many places in Coldharbour I assume is filled with the stench of decay of the rotting corpses of the soul shriven. And I can't imagine the creatures there smelling very nice, especially Ogrims. For some reason I keep thinking that dremora would smell like smoke or ash. I am very curious though about the water. It's considered to be "foul water" by the fishies, but it's so clear, so blue! I want to taste it! ...probably poisonous though.