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As a side note, you can tell a lot about how good an animal's sense of smell is by the size of its olfactory epithelium.
But smell, because it evolved before most of your other senses, takes a direct route to these different regions of the brain, where it can trigger your fight-or-flight response, help you recall memories, or make your mouth water.
One of the most famous examples of this is the ability to smell so-called "asparagus pee."
The inability to smell a scent is called anosmia, and there are about 100 known examples.
People with allicin anosmia can't smell garlic.
Those with eugenol anosmia can't smell cloves.
And some people can't smell anything at all.
Some people are born without a sense of smell.
If the olfactory epithelium gets swollen or infected, it can hamper your sense of smell, something you might have experienced when you were sick.
Not being able to smell anything can mess with your other senses, too.
Many people who can't smell at all also can't really taste the same way the rest of us do.
As you chew your food, air is pushed up your nasal passage, carrying with it the smell of your food.
Without the ability to smell, you lose the ability to taste anything more complicated than the five tastes your taste buds can detect: sweet, salty, bitter, sour, and savory.
So, the next time you smell exhaust fumes, salty sea air, or roast chicken, you'll know exactly how you've done it and, perhaps, be a little more thankful that you can.
You see, when Onion's jacket is removed, a chemical reaction happens, converting the sulfoxides that make her smell so great into sulfenic acid, which then becomes a nasty substance with a long name: syn-Propanethial S-oxide.
After male volunteers were randomly assigned to smell either one of the worn shirts, or a new unworn one, saliva samples showed an increase in testosterone in those who had smelled a shirt worn by an ovulating woman.
When a study asked women to smell T-shirts that had been worn by different men, they preferred the odors of those whose MHC molecules differed from theirs.
If a potential mate has managed to pass all these tests, there's still one more: the infamous first kiss, a rich and complex exchange of tactile and chemical cues, such as the smell of one's breath, and the taste of their mouth.
Most species of ants have little or no sense of sight and can only smell things in their vicinity.
The ability to smell separately with each nostril, smelling in stereo, helps to determine the direction of the smell's source so that within the first few moments of sniffing, the dog starts to become aware of not just what kind of things are out there but also where they're located.
If you can smell a spritz of perfume in a small room, a dog would have no trouble smelling it in an enclosed stadium and distinguishing its ingredients, to boot.
Besides being much more powerful than ours, a dog's sense of smell can pick up things that can't even be seen at all.
Regardless of cause, the bad smell almost always originates in the mouth and not the stomach or elsewhere in the body.
It may be that we're too acclimatized to the smell inside our own mouths to judge it.
One study showed that even when people do this, they tend to rate the smell subjectively according to how bad they thought it was going to be.
NR: We took a saw, and we nicked just the edge of it, and there was this really interesting smell that comes from it.
It was a smell that Natalia recognized from cutting up skulls in her gross anatomy lab: collagen.
Tell me more about the fact that, with holograms, you have sight but you don't have touch, you don't have smell.
That night with Sonny Boy and his family changed my life forever, because when it came time to go to sleep, we simply laid down on this concrete slab the size of half my bedroom with myself, Sonny Boy, and the rest of his family, seven of us in this long line, with the smell of rubbish all around us and cockroaches crawling all around.
Is it the intense smell?
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