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Discover LudwigThe phrase "attractive smell" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a pleasant or appealing scent, often in contexts related to food, perfumes, or nature.
Example: "The bakery was filled with an attractive smell of freshly baked bread that drew customers in."
Alternatives: "pleasant aroma" or "appealing fragrance".
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The millipedes secrete a repellent odor as a defense mechanism, and to beetles in the species Deltochilum valgum, it has become an attractive smell.
Be sure to put away all of your foodstuff and anything with an attractive smell, including cosmetics.
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Remove attractive smells.
In mice, odorant investigation time, a behavioral measure of the mouse's interest in and attraction for the odorant, was used as an index of odor preference: when smelling an attractive odor, mice spend more time investigating the odorant source than when encountering a less attractive odor [12], [13].
Considering that prediction of the perceptual properties of novel odorants by its chemical structure is extremely difficult [1], [4], analysis of mice investigation time (when smelling an attractive odor, mice spend more time investigating the odorant source than when encountering a less attractive odor [2]) has been proposed to be a useful mean to predict human olfactory preferences [2].
At the end of our first date, he gave me a ride home in his work van that smelled like bagels and coffee, an attractive aroma for this native New Yorker.
Sense of smell was evaluated with urine as an attractive odour, as previous studies had shown that mice are not interested in other odours.
Nevertheless, the men found the women less attractive after smelling the tears, the researchers report online today in Science.
Nobody will find you attractive if you smell and look dirty.
And you know, the seeds are very attractive — once that smell's gone, they look a bit like a pistachio.
The dark color of the coffee grounds makes them visually attractive, but their smell is another matter.
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