Apparently there are olfactory sensors on your skin. So when you stink after a vigorous workout at the gym, your whole body smells how funky you are!
If you are interested in smelling the pineapple at the store, just start rubbing it on your arm.
Or if you smell some cookies and want to get a good whiff, just go to the counter of the bakery and start rubbing the cookies on your stomach.
It’s not weird at all if you do that because that’s how it works.
Maybe not EXACTLY like that, but you get the idea. I guess a scientist in Germany decided to look at what your skin’s sense of smell could actually do, so he got some skin cells and some different scents and got to smelling!
Turns out sandalwood worked wonders! The scent helped the skin to heal!
Well, not sandalwood exactly, but Sandalore, which is used in sandalwood candles.
Sandalore! That’s fun to say. It sounds like a mythical city off the coast of a warm island where everybody wears sandals.
Mythical Leader: “Welcome to Sandalore, my friend! You found our hidden city in the sea! Here is your strappy, breathable footwear!”
Me: “I much prefer sneakers.”
Mythical Leader: “YOU ARE BANISHED FOREVER! Go find Shangri-La!”
I guess getting a sandalwood candle won’t heal all your wounds, though. They used concentrations about 1,000 times stronger than your average candle.
But maybe next time I’m sick, I’ll buy 1,000 sandalwood candles and light them all in my apartment. I’m sure I’ll be healthy in minutes!
Unless the smoke causes an issue. They didn’t do a study on that.
I’m off to buy out Yankee Candle.
Enjoy Everything.
-dj
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Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Friday, April 4, 2014
bring in da nose, bring in da funk
Smell anything? I bet you do! You probably smell everything! Because your nose is awesome!
They say that one does not simply walk into odor, but I’m pretty sure you do. I don’t know why Boromir said that. Maybe he wasn’t involved with this study.
Yes! A study! Olfactory science is a booming business! Scientists had people smell a bunch of stuff and they figured out that you can smell over a trillion different scents!
That’s an intense scents sense! I mean, you can hear about 340,000 tones. See maybe 10 million colors. But that’s nothing compared to a TRILLION!
They had people smell a whole bunch of different odor molecules to get to the trillion mark. But they think that’s still too low.
Everything we smell is made up of different combinations of odor molecules. Like, a rose, which has 275. I’m sure you know that, though. Even Shakespeare wrote “that which we call a rose by any other name would still smell like 275 odor molecules.”
Maybe you don’t know that one. It’s in the original script. Not the Leo and Claire one.
I’m a big smeller. Wait…that sounds weird. I mean that I like to smell things. Mostly food. It’s fun to get a scent of some new treats before you eat them.
Especially when you open a new bag of jelly beans. Those are odor molecules that know how to get my nose hairs tingling!
I’m sorry if you think that’s gross. But I don’t care. Because my nose is a valued part of my body and I will not let its propensity to get snotty make me lose any respect for it!
So when you’re enjoying the smell of something, make sure you thank your nose for giving you that special moment.
And if you smell something stinky, well, don’t blame your nose. It’s just letting you know that those odor molecules are bad and you should throw away the evil, lumpy milk!
I’m off to tear open a bag of jelly beans. Mmmmmmmm…
Enjoy Everything.
-dj
They say that one does not simply walk into odor, but I’m pretty sure you do. I don’t know why Boromir said that. Maybe he wasn’t involved with this study.
Yes! A study! Olfactory science is a booming business! Scientists had people smell a bunch of stuff and they figured out that you can smell over a trillion different scents!
That’s an intense scents sense! I mean, you can hear about 340,000 tones. See maybe 10 million colors. But that’s nothing compared to a TRILLION!
They had people smell a whole bunch of different odor molecules to get to the trillion mark. But they think that’s still too low.
Everything we smell is made up of different combinations of odor molecules. Like, a rose, which has 275. I’m sure you know that, though. Even Shakespeare wrote “that which we call a rose by any other name would still smell like 275 odor molecules.”
Maybe you don’t know that one. It’s in the original script. Not the Leo and Claire one.
I’m a big smeller. Wait…that sounds weird. I mean that I like to smell things. Mostly food. It’s fun to get a scent of some new treats before you eat them.
Especially when you open a new bag of jelly beans. Those are odor molecules that know how to get my nose hairs tingling!
I’m sorry if you think that’s gross. But I don’t care. Because my nose is a valued part of my body and I will not let its propensity to get snotty make me lose any respect for it!
So when you’re enjoying the smell of something, make sure you thank your nose for giving you that special moment.
And if you smell something stinky, well, don’t blame your nose. It’s just letting you know that those odor molecules are bad and you should throw away the evil, lumpy milk!
I’m off to tear open a bag of jelly beans. Mmmmmmmm…
Enjoy Everything.
-dj
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