#Olfaction

  1. The neurons that help to distinguish between very similar odors

    By Science X staff Order wine at a fancy restaurant, and the sommelier might describe its aroma as having notes of citrus, tropical fruit, or flowers. Yet, when you take a whiff, it might just smell like … wine. How can wine connoisseurs pick out such similar scents? Cold Spring Ha
  2. How humans use their sense of smell to find their way

    By Michele W. Berger You might say that a sweet tooth turned sixth-year psychology Ph.D. student Clara Raithel onto the human sense of smell. "As a master's student, I was studying how the brain responds to the 'sweet' taste under various conditions, for example, whether we approac
  3. From Kabobs To Roses, From DNA To Memories & Taste: The Science of Scent

    Why do you smell what you do? How does your brain translate what it receives into memories, emotions, taste, or information? And why does something you smell -- Is it hospital disinfectant? Church incense? What do you mean, it's tandoori chicken ?! -- smell completely different to
  4. Aftelier Chef's Essences: The Nexus Between Scent, Food, Cocktails & Chefs

    One of the world's top 2 or 3 foremost natural luxury perfumers (who also happens to be an expert fragrance historian) got together with a top Michelin-starred San Francisco chef to create rich, top-grade, purely-natural, concentrated fragrance essences for cooking, baking, and c
  5. ISO E Super: Antiseptic Fragrance Horror, Aphrodisiac Pheromone or Olfactory Nothingness?

    A look at ISO E Super , a hidden component in mant, many, many modern fragrances. Do fragrances ever give you a splitting headache? Do you sometimes smell a fragrance and then suddenly can't smell it at all? Do you sometimes get a whiff of medicinal hospital antiseptic from your p
  6. China: Fragrance Culture, Maoist History & Changing Modern Attitudes

    A look at China’s fragrance history, the role and impact of Mao's Cultural Revolution on fragrance culture, China's changing attitudes to scent over time, the significance of oud, and the issue of ritualized Eastern olfaction over Western perfumery. #Scent #Olfaction #Fragrance #O