Olfactory System Quotes

Eighty percent of flavor comes from your nose, including a set of internal nostrils. When you chew food and hold it in your mouth, the gases that are released goes into these nostrils. People who wolf their food are missing some of the flavor.

Smell is the shortest synaptic leap in the brain to our memory, and I'm amazed that people don't sniff everything.

The sense of smell in all dogs is their primary doorway to the world around them.

I'm very sensitive to smells.

Smells definitely do have a crazy impact on me.

The sense of smell explores; deleterious substances almost always have an unpleasant smell.

Stevie Wonder always smells so good... I'm like a DEA dog, I can smell people a block away!

To smell, though well, is to stink.

As the sense of smell is so intimately connected with that of taste, it is not surprising that an excessively bad odour should excite wretching or vomitting in some persons.

One has a nose. The nose scents and it chooses. An artist is simply a kind of pig snouting truffles.

Smell and taste are in fact but a single composite sense, whose laboratory is the mouth and its chimney the nose.

In humans, smell is often viewed as an aesthetic sense, as a sense capable of eliciting enduring thoughts and memories. Smell, however, is the primal sense. It is the sense that affords most organisms the ability to detect food, predators, and mates.

The identification of a population of olfactory sensory neurons innervating a single glomerulus that mediates robust avoidance to a naturally occurring odorant provides insight in the neural circuitry that underlies this innate behavior.

Where do the noses go? I always wondered where the noses would go.