Avery Gilbert
Auteur van What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life
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Neat Things I Learned:
* Women's farts are stinkier but men fart more
* Women are better at smelling odor than men and have their highest sense of smell around ovulation
* Helen Keller, despite being blind and deaf, did not have a remarkable sense of smell
* Corona beer was originally poorly made and thus oxidized quickly, a lime's acid neutralized the off odor. Now Corona is well made, but the lime tradition lives on
* If you tell people a scent is relaxing, they'll relax when they smell it. Tell them the exact same scent in stimulating and they'll perk up. Scents are all in your head.
* Sniffing coffee beans doesn't "reset" your sense of smell, it's just a placebo effect
* Some companies have "logoscents." Westin hotels has a logoscent called "White Tea" that they put in their lobbies
Pros: Sources cited, concludes with a look to the future.
Cons: Far too much about smell and odors in the arts and not enough about the science of smell. So much so, that the subtitle could be called misleading.… (meer)