Sentence examples for human smell from inspiring English sources

The characters, perhaps because they spend so much time in stuffy interiors, have a hyperdeveloped sense of smell ("Alexandra smells archival -- glue and musty paper and indelible ink"; "the TechInfo office reflected what must be my own human smell: lemon and sour milk and powdered cumin").

The "simple but smart" experiment, as neurobiologist James Bower of the California Institute of Technology calls it, suggests that human smell is more sophisticated than previously thought.

A model simulation of the human smell experiments.

One would like to achieve a similarly satisfying understanding of human smell.

Clearly there is a paradox that remains to be resolved pitting the perceptual space of human smell against the receptor space.

Our analyses suggest that the effective size of the functional human OR repertoire is much higher than the number of intact loci, implying considerable enhancement of the potential of human smell perception diversity.

Then the human smells come through: aging flesh, perfume, breath mints, sweat, tobacco.

The dogs in the study that were trained as service or therapy dogs showed the most positive response to human smells.

"I think that underlying all that is the desire to smell our bodies and be more present with human smells," she says.

So can humans smell in stereo?

I guess I'll have to find out what burning humans smell like some other time.