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Thanks Vern, interesting article.
> they were tested first on flowers and burnt plastic, and they managed to rate them correctly as pleasant and unpleasant.
hmmm. Gotta say I think this statement lacks objective validity. Personally, I find the scent of some lilies so cloying as to be rank and positively unpleasant - gimme the smell of tar, petrol and burning plastic anyday but! :)
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>rate them correctly as pleasant and unpleasant.
That didn't sit well with me either.
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yes, there was a family history of sever reactions to penicillan, so my doctor usually prescribed sulfur medicines, (long after most doctors had given them up) i associate suflur with feeling better.. when i was very young, i hated the medicine, and the smell of it, but after a while, i came to associate it with getter well. and now i like a mild to middling suflur smell. Like pavlov's dog, i got trained. and now years later, i still think of sulfur as a good smell.
so mav--you really must have had some good times in NJ in times past to think tar and petro chemical as good smell!
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> good times in NJ
yeah, I got way off the freeway too :)
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Personally, I find the scent of some lilies so cloying as to be rank and positively unpleasant
Every year my mother-in-law grows paperwhites in a pot of water in the house. Many people find the smell of these narcissus-like flowers pleasant, but I always refer to them as "Bakelites", because the odor reminds me of burning Bakelite. On the other hand, I really like the musky smells of civet and ferret, and many animal smells which others don't care for.
On the "body odour" thing - my husband told me he'd read an article that said the smell of the male armpit is apparently calming to women. Something about the pheromones, I imagine. After we quit rolling around on the floor laughing, I suggested that I should make a voodoo doll using his armpit hair for anxious moments when he isn't around....
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> paperwhites in a pot of water
YES! We made the mistake one year of doing this, and in the evenings I ended up having to put the bloody things outdoors, they made such a foul stink :(
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Gee, I'm glad I'm not alone on this, mav. Has anyone here heard of "supertasters"? (silly question; someone - or sometwelve - will have!)
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Yes, I've heard of supertasters. In fact, we were discussing the subject at a dinner party last night: one of our group and the daughter of another are both supertasters. The daughter, who is now about 11, still has an acceptable menu of only 12 or so foods; everything else is just overwhelming to her. The group member who is a supertaster has a bigger menu, but is still limited in that he cannot abide spicy foods and only takes real pleasure in the things I would call unforgiveably bland.
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