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香りの科学

香りの科学

Do Words for Fragrance-Evoked Feelings Travel Across Cultures?

Odor-emotion scales from Liverpool, Singapore, and Geneva revealed shared dimensions and local differences in the language of fragrance.
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Can Initial Brain Responses Hint at the Fragrances We Later Choose?

Brain patterns linked initial responses to later fabric softener choices in 25 women, with some information persisting after four months of use.
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Can an Unpleasant Odor Change Your Impression of the Same Face?

An EEG study examined odor-face timing. Unpleasant odor lowered face pleasantness, while timing effects differed between ratings and brain signals.
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Is Recalling a Scene from Its Smell Related to How Easily We Can Describe It?

Data from 106 adults linked odor recognition to emotion and verbal richness, and scene retrieval to familiarity and distinctive descriptions.
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Does Washing with Soap Change the Odor Signals That Reach Mosquitoes?

A laboratory study found that body washes changed mosquito landing choices differently across people. It did not measure protection from bites.
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Vanilla for Comfort, Mint for Energy: Do These Associations Appear in Reaction Times?

Three odor-adapted IAT experiments found faster responses for expected relaxation and energy pairings, without testing actual calming effects.
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Can Flower Images Help Us Notice a Fragrance as We Get Used to It?

Two experiments examined flower images, odor detection reports, and image-evoked brain responses during prolonged fragrance exposure and habituation.
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Is a Stronger Green Scent More Pleasant? A Study of Leaf Alcohol

A study compared green-odor compounds, mixtures, and leaf alcohol concentrations. The lower concentration was more pleasant and produced a larger auditory P300 reduction.
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Why Do We Quickly Draw Back from an Unpleasant Smell?

A 2021 study linked early olfactory-bulb responses to unpleasant odors with movement-related brain activity and separately measured rapid backward body sway.
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Why Can the Same Fragrance Smell Stronger to Different People?

Genetic and cell-based research links variation in individual odor receptors to intensity and pleasantness, while showing that much perceptual variation remains unexplained.