A July weekend in Ellesmere Port saw 3 walking tours of sensory discovery. Local residents and workers sniffed out the stories of who and what is going on in town, re-imagining Ellesmere Port from a different perspective. From freshly-baked bread and cut grass to BO, the 45-minute walks revealed completely new worlds.

Participants allocated a colour and a shape to each smell, to give it a physical form, translating perceptions of the invisible scents into a visual. A blank map was filled with pinned individual perceptions in the form of smellnotes. One smellnote per participant is included on the Ellesmere Port Scent Map with “smellsketch” visuals, sometimes by the participant and sometimes an interpretation by the designer.