What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life

Beauchamp, Gary

Gary Beauchamp is director of the Monell Chemical Senses Center, 3500 Market Street, Philadelphia 19104, Pennsylvania, USA. With Stuart Firestein and David V. Smith, he is co-editor of Olfaction and Taste. e-mail: [email protected]

Nature 454(7206):p 825-826, August 14, 2008. | DOI: 10.1038/454825a

For Marcel Proust, the madeleine evoked childhood memories - a new treatment of the science of smell attempts to take our everyday experience of odour to a more insightful level, explains Gary Beauchamp.