Smell is the most underrated sense — it carries most of what we call flavor and it can drop us straight into a decades-old memory. This short course explains how the nose detects thousands of odors with a few hundred receptors, why food goes flat when your nose is blocked, why scent is wired so tightly to memory and emotion, and what happens when smell fades or disappears.
Smell is the most underrated sense — it carries most of what we call flavor and it can drop us straight into a decades-old memory. This short course explains how the nose detects thousands of odors with a few hundred receptors, why food goes flat when your nose is blocked, why scent is wired so tightly to memory and emotion, and what happens when smell fades or disappears.
