The Adventure of the Red Circle - Higher Education

[hisietari.livejournal.com]

Canon Story: The Adventure of the Red Circle
Title: Higher Education
Author: hisietari
Rating: G
Author's Notes: Sorry for being so late with this, I just discovered this community. (^^;)

Here I was, assuming Watson to have been able to smell a female from two miles away. This case had brought us all more of an education than even I could have expected. Maybe I should enhance his share by future practise - sample collections of odours could hardly occupy more than half the kitchen, could they? A fascinating idea.

Comments

[shadowycat.livejournal.com]

Very amusing. Odours are wonderful memory boosters, but very hard to pin down for analysis...or practise. If anyone could figure out how to do so, no doubt it would be Holmes. :D

[hisietari.livejournal.com]

That's what I thought, too. XD;; I was working in a prison museum once where they also kept what was thought of as odour samples. Always a way to make the slightly depressing tour a little more fun.

[shadowycat.livejournal.com]

How did they preserve their odour samples? I'd be curious to know.

[hisietari.livejournal.com]

On cloth, which were kept in - I kid thee not - preserving jars. I should add that there was never proof for this method's effectivity.