Living Well With Your Sense of Smell

​We are taught to read, write and listen. Why not to smell?
 
By Luke Vorstermans
 
"We breathe in pairs, except for two times in our lives. At birth, we take our first breath; at death we exhale for the last time.

"Every day, we breathe about 23,040 times moving over 438 cubic feet of air. It takes but two seconds to inhale and three seconds to exhale. During this, odors flood our smell (olfactory) receptors with information of our surrounding environment.
 
"Scents swirl around us, enter our bodies and emanate from us. Whether the aroma is dispersed in the environment or delivered discreetly through an aromapod, we are constantly immersed in them."  - Diane Ackerman, A Natural History of the Senses.

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