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Past research has highlighted the importance of a male's scent to females, such that smell was rated significantly more important for women than men. Furthermore, smell and body odour were rated as the most important physical factor for females, compared to looks for males. [60] Further studies have aimed to understand these sex differences.
Body odor or body odour (BO) is present in all animals and its intensity can be influenced by many factors (behavioral patterns, survival strategies).Body odor has a strong genetic basis, but can also be strongly influenced by various factors, such as sex, diet, health, and medication. [1]
Phantosmia (phantom smell), also called an olfactory hallucination or a phantom odor, [1] is smelling an odor that is not actually there. This 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.
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"Smell", from Allegory of the Senses by Jan Brueghel the Elder, Museo del Prado. An odor (American English) or odour (Commonwealth English; see spelling differences) is a smell or a scent caused by one or more volatilized chemical compounds generally found in low concentrations that humans and many animals can perceive via their olfactory system.
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"The musky smell is a little more manly, but I like men's cologne. We also have it in candles all over our house." The unisex fragrance costs around $280 for just over 3 ounces and has "spicy ...
Smell events are often sporadic and episodic in nature (based on diet over the previous 24 hours), making it often difficult to diagnose by smell alone. Some people with trimethylaminuria report having a strong odor all the time, but there has not been any evidence apart from self reported symptoms that this is the case. [citation needed]