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Thioacetone has an intensely foul odor. Like many low molecular weight organosulfur compounds, the smell is potent and can be detected even when highly diluted. [5] In 1889, an attempt to distill the chemical in the German city of Freiburg was followed by cases of vomiting, nausea, and unconsciousness in an area with a radius of 0.75 kilometres (0.47 mi) around the laboratory due to the smell. [9]
Sense of smell is important ... it attracts you to others, and, conversely, lets you know when you're not so attractive to others. But a new study says our sense of smell is even more important ...
Brazilian Crush Cheirosa '40 Bom Dia Hair & Body Fragrance Mist. Compared to Sol de Janeiro's other fragrances, Cheirosa '40 is like a chameleon—it doesn't quite fit into one fragrance category.
Phantosmia (phantom smell), also called an olfactory hallucination or a phantom odor, [1] is smelling an odor that is not actually there. This hallucination is intrinsically suspicious as the formal evaluation and detection of relatively low levels of odour particles is itself a very tricky task in air epistemology.
Olfactory fatigue, also known as odor fatigue, odor habituation, olfactory adaptation, or noseblindness, is the temporary, normal inability to distinguish a particular odor after a prolonged exposure to that airborne compound. [1]
There's a war of scents going on at 36,000 feet, and it's escalating in ways you can't see (but will probably smell). Some passengers are treating personal hygiene as if it's optional.
The Lady and the Unicorn, a Flemish tapestry depicting the sense of smell, 1484–1500. Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris.. Early scientific study of the sense of smell includes the extensive doctoral dissertation of Eleanor Gamble, published in 1898, which compared olfactory to other stimulus modalities, and implied that smell had a lower intensity discrimination.
Whiffing nasty things is a part of life—but a foul nose shouldn’t be. ENT doctors explain the reasons for a bad smell in your nose and how to get rid of it.