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You Can Literally Sniff Out Other People's Inner Feelings | Scientific American

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Scents are not only important in our relationship to food and the natural world. They also play a role in how we communicate with people we know BY MARTA ZARASKA EDITED BY GARY STIX Oliver Rossi/Getty Images After a viral infection robbed Chrissi Kelly, an American archeologist living in the U.K., of her sense of smell, she no longer felt like herself. It was as if she were “floating away,” untethered from the rest of the world. Smell, she says, is something that binds us to nature and to our family, and without it, we cannot fully participate in everyday life. She missed the social part of scents: the deep joy of hugging a loved one and taking in their personal aroma. “I found living without the sense of smell profoundly disorienting,” she says. Kelly felt so strongly about what happened to her that she started a charity called AbScent to help people with smell loss. Kelly’s perception that smell forms part of a person’s identity is now receiving confirmation from recent research find

December 22, 2023 5 min read Add Us On Google Add SciAm You Can Literally Sniff Out Other People's Inner Feelings Scents are not only important in our relationship to food and the natural world. They also play a role in how we communicate with people we know By Marta Zaraska edited by Gary Stix Oliver Rossi/Getty Images After a viral infection robbed Chrissi Kelly , an American archeologist living in the U.K., of her sense of smell, she no longer felt like herself. It was as if she were "floating away," untethered from the rest of the world. Smell, she says, is something that binds us to natur

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