Following One Reader’s Nose
by Rose Eveleth
May 30, 2013
2 minutes
ur noses are incredible things. Most of us can distinguish around 10,000 different smells—but like many kinds of human experience, we each smell those smells somewhat differently. In on , Veronique Greenwood looked at one particularly divisive smell molecule, androstenone. It turns out that to some of us, androstenone smells like vanilla, and to others it smells like something
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