How Many Smells Can You Smell?

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The fragance itself was, and still is, a radical surprise. A perfume, like the timbre of a voice, can say something quite independent of the words actually spoken.

~LUCA TURIN, author of The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell

The sense of smell is probably nature’s oldest. We can trace its odoriferous origins back to the single-celled organisms who sampled Earth’s most primordial perfumes.Humans depend m...