Sentence examples for odours from inspiring English sources

For much of the season the Premier League – for all its fit-to-burst bloatedness and uncompetitiveness, its premium-rate charges and occasionally unpalatable odours – asphyxiates other sports, except during Olympic years.

Odours co-ordinate a wide range of human behaviour.

One is that people employ it to mask body odours that they perceive as bad.

Illness and old age both bring characteristic odours of their own, and neither state makes people more attractive.

These formulae could be used to mix compounds from a palette of smells to produce a range of different odours.

The four researchers found that bees with the desynchronising drug in their brains could still differentiate between some of the odours, but they could no longer distinguish reliably between those that had similar chemical structures.Unlike the undrugged control bees, the desynchronised bees extended their tongues for the wrong smells, presumably because they did not perceive them accurately.

These bees will then associate the smell of clover with nectar, and the scent of a clover flower will send them into a frenzy of proboscis-extension.With the help of Brian Smith and Seetha Bhagavan from Ohio State University, Dr Stopfer and Dr Laurent tapped into this natural behaviour by training bees to protrude their tongues in response to a set of simple odours.

The series will include the odours of open sewers, plague-striken cities and Henry VIII's feet.

They found, as they report in Experimental Biology, that the animals spent an average of five seconds breathing air scented with lemon, jasmine or cinnamon, all pleasant odours from a human point of view.

Each participant was asked to rate the face's "likeability .Dr Li found that the odours helped shape people's judgments about the faces when their responses indicated that they had not smelled anything.

He put his volunteers in a brain scanner and wafted disgusting odours such as rancid butter and rotten eggs into their nostrils (he wafted some non-disgusting ones in, too, as a control).