Vital questions

[mrissa]

What do you think elves smell like? The full-sized Sidhe or Alfar or Tolkien kind, not the wee faaaaairies.

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[zunger.livejournal.com]

The lighter-skinned elves smell mostly like very clean and washed Men, but with a scent of the small white flowers that grow beneath their homes; not cloyingly sweet, but vaguely reminiscent of orange blossoms, and vaguely of bread baking. The sylvan varieties smell of rain and leaves in autumn. The elves of the countryside, of fresh earth and dew. The ones who live in far realms have more exotic scents still; for instance, the ones who live on the high mountaintops near the edge of the world, where the stars are often visible even during the day, smell faintly of rare metals, and have a second scent which is said to not resemble anything which humans have encountered.

I think, overall, they absorb faintly the scents of the things most characteristic of their home countries -- or at least, what would be most characteristic of it to Elven eyes.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Where does skin color fall into your taxonomy?

[zunger.livejournal.com]

Hmm... I'm not quite certain. I think it's mostly a matter of elves from various environments tend towards some particular colorations or features in their "normal" state. Of course, the normal state for elves is wearing so many glamours that it's kind of hard to tell what they would look like without them, so that's a bit ambiguous.