What is Your Smell IQ?

Your nose sits in the middle of your face unobtrusively going about its business 24/7. How much do you really know about its function?
 
By Luke Vorstermans
 
Most people pay little attention to their sense of smell. Other than our nose providing a placeholder for reading glasses, our sense of smell goes about its daily function identifying, categorizing and memorizing thousands of different odors with every breath we take.

We breathe an average of 23,040 times a day and flood our smell receptors with over 240 cubic feet of air, but rarely do we take any notice unless, of course, it’s an erotic perfume or a dead skunk.

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