MORNINGSIDE HEIGHTS Wood chips; damp tennis ball; general dog scent; cabbage; cocoa; simple floral perfume; paint; fountain; greenery; air conditioning; chlorine; lemon balm; Port-o-Potty; melon mixed with air conditioner; fruit salad; socks; urine.
They found that eight general terms for scents (citrus, floral, green, fruity, herbaceous, musk, oriental and woody) could work as families to which more than 2,000 specific scents could be assigned.
Their book has a series of introductory chapters about scent in general, and reviews of more than twelve hundred perfumes, initialled by T.S. or L.T. To understand perfume, science is a good place to start, since it's with the nineteenth-century discovery of synthetic fragrances that modern perfumes began.
Because over evolutionary time, floral scents in general, and dimethyl disulfide in particular, have signaled the presence of food to nectar-feeding bats, we suspected that these bats might more readily associate scents than shapes with food and use such scent cues to relocate food sources.
In general, stay away from scented pads, especially if your skin is sensitive.
This row adds to the sense of the scent of a general election hanging heavy in the air.
This ensures that any attraction to male scent is a general response across normal genetically-variable female mice rather than a response that is specific to a laboratory strain, and has not been influenced by many generations of artificial selection for successful breeding in the laboratory.
First, it challenges the widely held assumption that MHC scents provide a general mechanism across vertebrates to avoid inbreeding and promote MHC heterozygosity.
In an election year these civilian opponents, whom the general has outwitted for a decade, scent blood.
