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T-shirts and Testosterone

Can you detect a dominant male by smell alone?

11 hrs ago •

A Veterans Day Remembrance

Geoffrey Webster: fragrance company president and U.S. Army pilot

Nov 12 •

What’s So Secret About Scent?

A museum exhibit in Düsseldorf triggers the question

Nov 11 •

Is bigger always better?

Nov 3 •

October 2025

Ghosts of the Fragrance Industry

Its recent ancestors are but a haunting memory

Oct 28 •

Just coming up for air

Oct 24 •

Body Odor as Biometric ID?

Creepy chemistry to serve the all-knowing state

Oct 14 •

Breaking the Olfactory Code

Some biological realism plus lots of CPU time

Oct 7 •

September 2025

Brain Electrodes and Phantom Smells

Medical insights or stray voltage?

Sep 30 •

Olfactory Obsessions

When people are plagued by phantom BO

Sep 22 •

Scents to Snooze by

Can you smell your way to better sleep?

Sep 15 •

Parsing the Language of Smell

A new PhD tackles how we describe odors

Sep 7 •

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