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香りの科学

香りの科学

Do Pleasant Wood-Scented Rooms Produce Matching Bodily Responses?

A study of four hiba-wood rooms found that pleasant impressions and short-term physiological responses did not follow the same pattern.
香りの科学

Foot Odor Does Not Come from Sweat Alone

A laboratory study linked foot callus, bacterial enzymes, and staphylococcal metabolism to isovaleric-acid production, while showing that other bacteria can consume odor compounds.
香りの科学

Does Deodorant Make Body-Odor Similarity Harder to Detect?

Raters judged unfragranced odors from actual couples more similar than recombined pairs, but the overall couple-level analysis was not significant. The study also explored contraception and relationship satisfaction.
香りの科学

Making Activated Carbon White Without Losing Its Odor-Capturing Role

Researchers coated activated carbon with titanium dioxide and a polymer, tested adsorption of five odor compounds, and evaluated a WAC-containing spray in eight people over six hours.
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Does Stress Sweat Smell the Same as Exercise Sweat?

Sweat from the same men smelled stronger during stress despite a smaller collected quantity. Separate trials tested three unperfumed antiperspirants 48 hours after their final application.
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Women’s Underarm Odor: Is It Related to Hair-Removal Frequency?

A study of Japanese women found no clear odor-intensity differences by shaving frequency or hair-removal history, but found an association with transepidermal water loss.
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Can a Different Shampoo Fragrance Change How It Feels?

Home-use trials of shampoos with identical bases found fragrance-related differences mainly in the feel of the neat product and during washing. Results after multiple-testing correction were more limited for wet and dry hair.
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Cheese or Vomit? How Names Change the Way Odors Are Perceived

Three studies explore how odor labels alter pleasantness, brain responses, sniffing, and some physiological measures, while revealing important differences between experiments.
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Which Receptors Detect the Characteristic Smell of Grapefruit?

Improved cultured-cell assays revealed receptors for grapefruit and other signature odorants. Ambrox stereoisomers also showed why more than one receptor can matter.
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Tracing Lingering Urine Odor in a Care Facility to Its Sources

Researchers combined smell assessments, p-cresol measurements, and bacterial tests to locate urine-odor sources and track a year of targeted cleaning at one care facility.