Smell in sentence

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And it is the classic synthetic aroma chemical, OK? It’s the molecule that has made men’s fragrances smell the way they do since 1881, to be exact.

And the prediction is it should smell of coumarin.

The smell hit me first.

On the list it would be stuff like, seeing the daffodils bloom in the spring, the smell of new-mown hay, catching a wave and bodysurfing, the touch of a baby's hand, the sound of Doc Watson playing the guitar, listening to old records of Muddy Waters and Uncle Dave Macon.

It's in the smell.

These white pearlescent flakes hit the noodles, this haunting, wonderful, nutty, mushroomy smell wafted up. 10 seconds passed and it was gone.

If you've ever gotten on one of those long-haul flights to Australia and realized that they're not going to serve you any food, but somebody in the row in front of you has just opened the McDonald's bag, and the smell of golden arches is wafting over the seat, you think, I can't do anything else with this 25 dollars for 16 hours.

It burned kind of slow, but it made a nice smell, compared to other rocket fuels I had tried, that all had sulfur in them.

And in fact, I want you to really smell the person who's sitting next to you, even if you don't know them.

See what you can smell.

Throughout history, there had been many examples of diseases being associated with a smell.

Well, that's quite a nice smell, isn't it?

So it's no surprise then, that smell and body odour gets a bit of a bad reputation.

If I was to say to you: 'You smell', you're going to take that not exactly as a compliment, are you?

But you do smell, you've just found that out, you do smell.

What if we could actually think about smell in a positive way?

Now, animals are built to smell.

But the mosquito has a really hard job to find you, and that's all to do with the way you smell.

People who don't attract mosquitoes smell repellent, and what we know is - (Laughter) I should clarify: repellent to mosquitoes, not to people.

But mosquitoes are able to do that because they have a highly sophisticated sense of smell, and they're able to see through all this sort of odour sludge to find you, that individual, and bite you as a blood meal.

They really love the smell of feet.

Mosquitoes love that smell.

Now, when it comes to mosquitoes and olfaction, their sense of smell, it's very complex.

Well, smell is the same, it's made up of a suite of chemicals in the right combination.

But what this does is it allows us to measure the electrical response of the smell receptors in the antennae, and so that we can see what a mosquito is smelling.

So now we know what the smell of malaria is, and we've used the mosquito as a bio-sensor to tell us what the smell of malaria actually is.

Now, dogs have an incredible sense of smell, but there's something a little bit more special about them, they have an ability to learn.

So we wanted to know: Could we actually train dogs to learn the smell of malaria?

And so we've been working with a charity called Medical Detection Dogs to see whether we can train them to learn the smell of malaria.

This could completely revolutionise the way that we track the spread of diseases, the way that we target our control efforts and respond to disease outbreaks, ultimately helping to lead to the eradication of malaria, and even beyond malaria for other diseases that we already know have a smell.

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