The phrase "attractive scent" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a pleasant or appealing smell, often in contexts related to perfumes, flowers, or food.
Example: "The attractive scent of the blooming jasmine filled the air, drawing everyone closer to the garden."
Alternatives: "pleasing aroma" or "delightful fragrance."
Food or an attractive scent lies at one end, so that the next trip down the maze, the rat remembers which direction to head.
And, somewhere along the Virginia side of the river, a frisky horse detects the attractive scent of a mule on the opposite bank of the ice-caked Potomac and the two animals soon break into a love duet set to a tune from Mozart's "Don Giovanni".
A barbecue is unlikely to be effective, due to the attractive scent of meat.
The occurrence of coloured petals and attractive scents is not essential and is by no means characteristic of all flowers.
It is difficult to understand why low quality males do not 'cheat' and produce more attractive scent-marks, unless scent-marking is costly and low quality males cannot afford the costs (handicap or costly signalling hypothesis), or unless it is physiologically impossible for males to produce compounds in their urine that would disguise poor health or condition [ 55, 74- 76].
With particular relevance to the expression of Visc-2 in the OB, the sense of smell was assessed using an olfactory preference task where both aversive and attractive scents are presented (Witt et al. 2009).
Both wild-type and knockout mice were able to clearly distinguish between the 2 classes of odors, with similar amounts of time exploring aversive versus attractive scents in both genotypes (Fig. 7 E).
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It is the inherent naturalness of genitals that make them sexually attractive, and removing scent from sex would be like removing the sweat.
As a measure of the sense of smell olfactory response to both attractive and aversive scents was assessed as previously described (Witt et al. 2009).
