10 bizarre and wonderful facts about the sense of smell

We feel different scents every second of our life... but even scientists still don't know everything about the sense of smell. Anyway, there are some amazing scientific facts about it that will definitely surprise you.



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Anne Roberts
I have always been interested in the sense of smell as well as other senses such as taste . When doing an Open university course in psychology at a summer school we were divided into groups of five and each group had to think up experiments I decided to experiment whether if a person agrees to be blind folded and set up to eat all the different flavours of crisps would they be able to identify the taste . Twenty subjects agreed to participate not one of them identified the crisp flavours correctly. Therefore it was obvious that our sense of taste can be affected by our sense of sight . This article is so interesting The fact a dog is able to know when the owner is coming home is good to know .My little Yorkshire Terrier I am sure is aware when my daughter and family are about to visit and perhaps that is because they look after her when I need them too
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17.03.2020 08:18
ninakamwene
An excellent educational trivia. You smell very 'smart' right now. Be well.
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04.07.2020 02:37
Perk
Very interesting, but I'd like to know who counted those trillion different smells.
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23.05.2023 11:02
Helen Dakin
When I was a child, I thought had multiple scoliosis because I had no sense of smell; although, occasionally my sense of smell is very good. And I'm a picky eater; although, I eat healthily.
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31.03.2023 12:03
Steve Tingle
Have had anosmia most of my life, though I can detect tiny amounts of escaping gas, but agree with the connection with taste and eating, I don't tend to like eating different meals, prefer to stick with bland filling meals (it's just as well I'm English).
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25.06.2022 07:13
Doris Dallaire
Most of this was new to me and I found it really interesting. Thanks for posting.
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07.05.2022 02:57
Mark Balfour
Extremely interesting. As the saying goes you learn something new everyday.
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07.01.2021 01:45
deborahpmercer
Fascinating! I actually have synesthesia, though in my case smell isn't involved - I associate colours with sound/music.
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28.09.2020 04:43
Gail Wood
Dogs smell the passage of Time surprised me.
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19.09.2020 06:07
Diane Herbert Wall
Sometimes I smell things when I remember something--I call it olfactory hallucinations!
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02.05.2020 05:02
ptsutton
Fun stuff!
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23.12.2019 04:34
shankapoo jones
Yes the information was new to me. Thanks!
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22.12.2019 10:29
carole winslow
Some new information - just wish someone had edited this and corrected the several references to "smell of sense."
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22.12.2019 05:51
Jim Adams
We don’t smell our home because we have become nose blind to them.
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22.12.2019 04:52
theotishaynes
One can learn something new everyday. Very informative and insightful article.
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22.12.2019 04:46

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