olfactory
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Septimus Piesse, a 19th-century chemist, translated sounds into smells, proclaiming an “octave of odors,” the authors explain, “with correspondences between notes and scents providing the basis for harmonious olfactory combinations.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
The unusual diversity found in their olfactory genes could also help explain a behavioral mystery.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 26, 2026
Pigeons "have an extremely sophisticated olfactory system, so that they can smell grass seed when it's being sown," said Davis.
From Barron's ● Jul. 1, 2026
Does the olfactory exhilaration also enhance play-calling, amplifying one’s grasp of X’s and O’s?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 12, 2026
A rabbit, it has been calculated, has something like 100 million olfactory receptors.
From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas
“Thank God my moustache filters out some of the stench. My olfactories are already beginning to send out distress signals.”
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
"Mabel says that smoke never offends your olfactories, or affects your head unpleasantly, when you are suffering from this nervous affection," he said to Herbert.
From At Last by Marion Harland
How their oily fustian filled The summer air with fragrance that his fine olfactories thrilled!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 16, 1892 by Various
This was attended with such good effects that, notwithstanding the place was still offensive to the olfactories, the managers concluded to open in it our first Sabbath-school.
From Cast Adrift by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
Having keen olfactories, they smelt the cooking of dainty viands from afar.
From The Woman's Bible by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Vocabulary lists containing olfactory
Fahrenheit 451
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The Nose Knows: Olfactory Vocabulary
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100 Great Words from "Fahrenheit 451" -- Part I Vocabulary
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