Gwendoline Christie was a guest on "A Matter of Fragrance with Bella Freud". She talked about the importance and power of scents and this excerpt about Brienne struck me because that's exactly how I imagine her too.
- "So with each character that you play, do you choose a scent for that character to have continuity?" - "I don't always, but often the character will choose it. You know, when I think about some of the kind of characters I played like Brienne of Tarth in Game of Thrones was very much about sweat and the gorgeous smell of earth, maybe just after it rains. You know, the earth releases a particular odour. It's really, really specific. I always feel that's where she sort of lived. There's something about the scent of brass and metal of the sword, of all the armour that she wore as well. So that was present. That wasn't something I was having to bring to it."
(-> twitter post)
