FirstNerve

Scents to Snooze by

Can you smell your way to better sleep?

Sep 15 • 

Avery Gilbert

2

Parsing the Language of Smell

A new PhD tackles how we describe odors

Sep 7 • 

Avery Gilbert

4

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August 2025

Beaming Radio into the Nose

Seoul music at 2.45 GHz

Aug 31 • 

Avery Gilbert

3

Olfactory Loss and Alzheimer’s Disease

Commercialized smell testing could pay off big time.

Aug 24 • 

Avery Gilbert

4

OUT: Human Pheromones, IN: Whole Body Odor

Smell scientists get their noses out of the armpit

Aug 16 • 

Avery Gilbert

1

2

Decoding Female Axillary Odor

The Al Bundy theory of human pheromones

Aug 10 • 

Avery Gilbert

3

3

July 2025

Who’s Talking About Smelling?

The current crop of perfume commentators

Jul 30 • 

Avery Gilbert

11

Fat or Tasteless?

A possible sensory link to Ozempic face

Jul 23 • 

Avery Gilbert

3

2

Eustace Tilley Takes a Sniff

The Feminization of Smell Culture

Jul 19 • 

Avery Gilbert

1

Is AI About to Revolutionize Fragrance?

Or are we living in Dot Com Bubble 2.0?

Jul 11 • 

Avery Gilbert

1

June 2025

Blowing Smoke: NPR and the Smell of Weed

Cutting through media blather

Jun 18 • 

Avery Gilbert

April 2025

Novelists and the Nose

Scented fiction in the 21st century

Apr 25 • 

Avery Gilbert