http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/31/t-magazine/art/australia-swimming-pools-venice-architecture-biennale.html

“The pool and what it represents is woven into Australian identity
and culture,” explains the five-time Olympic gold medalist Ian Thorpe, who also
contributed a story to the project. Visiting the pavilion in Venice, Thorpe was
particularly struck by the scent design (created by the Sydney-based parfumier
Elise Pioch with the artist duo Lyn & Tony), which he found powerfully evocative
of outdoor Australian pools. “There are two smells,” he explains. “One that
you’d associate with fresh rain: the slight smell of eucalyptus and decaying
plant matter that you’d find in a wet natural environment. The other is the
smell of smoke that you’d get after a bush fire, a smell we commonly associate
in Australia with summer. The pool I swam in when I was training and where I put
in most of my hours was right across the road from the national park — the smell
of cut grass and rain and smoke took me right back.”