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The science of smell

Posted by Robin on 17 September 2007 Leave a Comment

Common physical symptoms such as fatigue, chest pain and lower back pain are related to the perception of everyday smells, University of Nottingham researchers will tell delegates at a health psychology conference on campus.

The researchers investigated how stress, intense odours and personality combined to explain everyday physical symptoms that appear to have no medical basis — such as abdominal pain, fatigue, chest pain and lower back pain.

— Just as you suspected, bad perfumes make you sick. Read the rest in Science Daily.

When it comes to a man's body odour, the fragrance -- or stench -- is in the nose of the beholder, according to U.S. researchers who suggest a single gene may determine how people perceive body odour.

The study, published online on Sunday in the journal Nature, helps explain why the same sweaty man can smell like vanilla to some, like urine to others and for about a third of adults, have no smell at all.

— And as you also suspected, what smells good to you might not smell good to others. Read more in Stinky? It's not his sweat, it's your nose (link no longer working, sorry!) at Yahoo. Thanks to Ruth for both of these links!

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