Monty Don

Sweet peas should smell. Half the point of growing sweet peas is to cut them for the house; they should fill a room with an almost painful olfactory inarticulateness. But most sweet peas smell of nothing. This does not stop them being beautiful, but they are like food with no flavour.

English Celebrity

Dhani Jones

The one thing that holds people back from working out together is that they don't want to smell around other people. Your olfactory sense is the primary sense in your memory, and you don't want to be part of anyone's memory thinking that you smell bad.

American Athlete

Richard Axel

The identification of a population of olfactory sensory neurons innervating a single glomerulus that mediates robust avoidance to a naturally occurring odorant provides insight in the neural circuitry that underlies this innate behavior.

American Scientist

Lyall Watson

Smell was our first sense. It is even possible that being able to smell was the stimulus that took a primitive fish and turned a small lump of olfactory tissue on its nerve cord into a brain. We think because we smelled.

South African Scientist

Hamish Bowles

My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda.

English Journalist

Used with words like 'nerves,' 'system,' and 'stimuli' to discuss the biological aspects of smell.

Common Parings

Specifically refers to smell, not other senses like sight or hearing.

Sensory Focus

Often appears in discussions about sensory perception, not general smell references.

Contextual Clarity

Primarily used in medical or scientific contexts to discuss smell's brain mechanisms.

Medical Usage

Considered technical language and might not be understood in casual conversation.

Technical Jargon

Refers to a specific part of the brain tied to the sense of smell, not the nose itself.

Anatomical Reference

 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. But even though we've all got the same physiological set-up, two nostrils and millions of olfactory neurons, not everybody smells the same things. One of the most famous examples of this

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 there are some striking similarities. For example, most insects have smell detectors on their antennae, similar to those found in human noses. And our primary olfactory brain regions look and function rather similarly, with clusters of neurons activated and deactivated in precise timing

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 that lives in sub-saharan africa african pouched rats are among the world's largest rodents they can grow as long as 35 inches including the tail and they have a superpower that could save people's lives they do they have an amazing census mail great olfactory sense and that great old

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 matched our olfactory receptors." Though I'll probably also say something about her hair and personality as well. And that is a wonderful thing there. Love does not die because of that thing. Pain doesn't go away either. This is a terrible thing, even though I understand pain.

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 and allow odor concentration to build up over mulitple sniffs. But all that impressive nasal architecture wouldn't be much help without something to process the loads of information the nose scoops up. And it turns out that the olfactory system dedicated to proessing smells

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 man-made and natural scents are used as olfactory enrichment tools at the zoo the scents are sprayed inside animals enclosures to keep the animals active and engaged both for their mental and physical well-being and for the viewing

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 the subventricular zone, which may supply neurons to the olfactory bulb for communication between the nose and brain, and the striatum, which helps manage movement. Scientists don't yet have a good grasp on exactly what role

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 long career as an archaeologist tom took the search for amelia one step further by enlisting the help of bone-sniffing dogs we humans with our defective eyesight and our even more defective olfactory abilities

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 I like this example because it clearly demonstrates that an olfactory receptor's primary job is to be a chemical sensor, but depending on the context, it can influence how you perceive a smell,

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 olfactory cues scent-marking calling kangana sauce lion's roar obviously they completely have different lifestyles and I just think that's indeed very very fascinating leopards

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