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Why have my sneezes suddenly started smelling like sweet flowers?
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Asked by Dorispardon
on 2011-10-12 21:05:59

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Last edited on: 2011-10-12 21:06:27

Categories: Human Body.

Tags: smell, sneeze, sneezing.

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Why do unwashed human genitals smell of fish?
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Asked by Marmaduke
on 2011-09-08 14:52:42

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The smell of rice cooking gives me a bad headache, why is this? This used to torment me as a child, it's got better as I've got older but it still happens (I'm now 36). Recovery time was longer when I was younger than now. It happens almost instantaneously when I walk into a kitchen where it's cooking or has been recently cooked.
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Asked by haywoodfloyd
on 2011-09-04 16:29:51

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Categories: Domestic Science.

Tags: Food, smell, cooking, foodscience, rice, smelling, ricecooking.

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Flower power Why are humans attracted to the sight and smell of flowers? Flowers co-evolved with their pollinators: that is why they find flowers attractive. This arrangement works to the benefit of both parties, so do humans get any similar benefits from liking flowers? The plants do, in that gardeners propagate them. Come to think of it, are other mammals attracted to flowers?
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Asked by Moderator
on 2011-08-10 13:46:28

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Categories: Human Body.

Tags: evolution, human, smell, sight, pollination, flower, pollinator.

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Smelly lucre "The smell of money" is more than a figure of speech: there is no doubt that paper money has a distinctive odour, especially when it is new. So what causes that special smell of the just-issued, brand-new banknotes that I get from the ATM? Paco Fernandez, London, UK
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Asked by Moderator
on 2011-06-22 13:54:49

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Categories: Domestic Science.

Tags: smell, money, banknote.

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No one can hear you sniff I've heard that being in space supresses your sense of smell. If so, why? Paul Maddox, Oslo, Norway
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on 2011-06-22 13:52:06

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Categories: Human Body.

Tags: Space, smell, nose, sniff.

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Old Person's smell What is it exactly that old people smell of ? I don't mean like unclean old people, I mean that distinct musty kind of smell that you get with some old people ...its always the same and I wondered what caused it and why?
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Asked by pipster
on 2011-04-19 16:31:52

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Last edited on: 2011-04-21 12:00:41

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Odour water If I keep a plastic mineral-water bottle topped up with tap water and regularly drink directly from it, the neck smells vile after a couple of weeks. Why is this and why is it always exactly the same smell?
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Asked by Moderator
on 2011-03-02 14:25:51

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Tags: smell, plastic, bottle, vile, mineralwater.

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Can smell wake you up? I have always wondered if a strong smell can wake you up immediately like a loud noise.
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Asked by nosha
on 2011-02-05 17:44:30

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Tags: smell, sleep.

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Does the smell of coffee (the air above coffee) contain caffeine?
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Asked by translatrix
on 2011-01-03 10:47:58