on the cusp of the season , however the storm now incipient , as if whispering the air and clearly breathable by one and all , but as yet unarrived ; and primarily heralded ( although this varies from individual to individual ) by a sharply intensified olfactory sense , and to a lesser degree by heightened hearingthe natural , the analytical adhesion , the untainted affinity as it were , is subtly , almost imperceptibly so , replaced by , or super-imposed upon by ( discussions still abound among scholars as to how this change is actually effected ) the phenomenon of hormonal adhesion which softly and delicately begin to alter the individuals values .