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香りの科学

香りの科学

Can Odors Change How Beverage Labels Are Perceived?

Matching odors increased beverage liking and purchase intentions in an fMRI study, but did not significantly increase expected healthiness.
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Does Knowing an Odor’s Identity Improve Discrimination?

A study of 92 people found no clear discrimination advantage from naming brown sugar and black pepper, distinguishing changes in impressions from fine odor discrimination.
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Does a More Rose-Like Scent Feel More Pleasant?

Nineteen people evaluated 10 fresh rose cultivars. Chemical analyses explored how rose typicality and pleasantness relate to complex mixtures rather than single ingredients.
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Does Seeing Wood Make Its Odour More Pleasant?

Material photographs increased wood-odour pleasantness and familiarity, but not intensity. A pleasant smell was not evidence of healthy indoor air.
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Can a Name Change How the Same Odor Smells?

A 7T MRI study found label-dependent odor impressions and piriform activity patterns for some odorants, without proving separate word and substance pathways.
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Can Fragrance Change How We See Our Own and Other Faces?

A small study of women found changes in facial ratings and EEG responses with a body-wash fragrance, while leaving the causes and generalizability open.
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Can a Cream’s Fragrance Change How It Feels?

Four experiments in France and China explored how fragrance affects face-cream liking, perceived texture, and post-use well-being, with effects that varied by context.
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Can Describing an Odor Make It Harder to Recognize?

Does writing down an odor help you recognize it later? A study of Chinese university students tested when verbal descriptions hinder recognition and when the difference disappears.
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Do Perfume Gender Categories Match People’s Preferences?

A small study of two perfumes on skin found overlapping preferences that did not clearly follow the commercial men’s and women’s categories.
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Can Reaction Times Measure a Perfume’s Mood Associations?

An olfactory priming task linked perfumes with faster responses to relaxing or energizing words, without establishing physiological or therapeutic effects.