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  2. Odor - Wikipedia

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    Odor concentration refers to an odor's pervasiveness. To measure odor sensation, an odor is diluted to a detection or recognition threshold. The detection threshold is the concentration of an odor in air when 50% of a population can distinguish between the odorous sample and an odor-free reference sample.

  3. Category:Odor - Wikipedia

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    An odor is also called a "smell" or a "scent", which can refer to either a pleasant or an unpleasant odor. Subcategories This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total.

  4. Sense of smell - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Deodorant - Wikipedia

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    A deodorant is a substance applied to the body to prevent or mask body odor caused by bacterial breakdown of perspiration, for example in the armpits, groin, or feet.A subclass of deodorants, called antiperspirants, prevents sweating itself, typically by blocking sweat glands.

  6. Aroma compound - Wikipedia

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    Fragrance bottles. An aroma compound, also known as an odorant, aroma, fragrance or flavoring, is a chemical compound that has a smell or odor.For an individual chemical or class of chemical compounds to impart a smell or fragrance, it must be sufficiently volatile for transmission via the air to the olfactory system in the upper part of the nose.

  7. Odor detection threshold - Wikipedia

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    The odor detection threshold is the lowest concentration of a certain odor compound that is perceivable by the human sense of smell. The threshold of a chemical compound is determined in part by its shape, polarity, partial charges, and molecular mass. The olfactory mechanisms responsible for a compound's different detection threshold is not ...

  8. Smell - Wikipedia

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    Smell may refer to; Odor, airborne molecules perceived as a scent or aroma; Sense of smell, the scent also known scientifically as olfaction "Smells" , an episode of Bottom; The Smell, a music venue in Los Angeles, California; Code smell, any characteristic of a program that possibly indicates a deeper problem

  9. Body odor - Wikipedia

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    Body odor is an important feature of animal physiology. It plays a different role in different animal species. For example, in some predator species that hunt by stalking (such as big and small cats), the absence of body odor is important