You
probably know that your taste buds only pick up five flavors, salty,
sour, bitter, sweet, and savory and everything you eat, drink, or
randomly lick falls into those categories. Turns out the same thing
happens with smell. Scientists at Bates College in Maine have found that
there are really only 10 SMELLS in the world, and everything you smell
falls into one of those categories.
The 10 smells are:
Fragrant, like flowers
Woody
Lemon and citrus
Other fruit
Chemical
Mint
Sweet
Pungent
Popcorn
Decayed
Yes,
for some reason popcorn gets its own. And decayed sums up pretty much
everything BAD, from a rotting corpse to the rotting smell of the room
after everyone ate at Chipotle.
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