Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel...
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Scientifically an odour or smell is made up of airborne molecues that interact with our nose in a specific way. However, smell is a subjective sense. We all smell the same odour, but as smell is a chemical sense we all react differently to that smell. It is this reaction that makes us individual.
Malodours or what we perceive to be malodours are common to most people. A definition of malodour would be; 'an olfactive stimulant that when detected is considered offensive to the target population'.
Common Malodours:
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