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Making sense of terpenes: An exploration into biological chemistry

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From: The American Biology Teacher
Date: 20020301
Author:Boehlke, Paul R; Glaeske, Kevin W

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Smell is the essence of imagination," expressed Philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau. For proof, try to describe a smell to someone who has not experienced it (Ackerman 1990). And what if we smell an object without seeing it? Then we can puzzle over it as we run the sensation past our memories to find a match. We are confident in this area, but Rune' de Wijk and colleagues' (1995) report that what we think should be easy, quickly becomes perplexing. Often we may have an emotional response without a label. This may be because there is very little language to describe scents, ...

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