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Smells

At CB I Hate Perfume, food scents abound.

Why Smell Like Flowers When You Could Smell Like Roast Beef?

The rebel of the perfume world can make you smell like dinner or dessert.

Anne Ewbank November 30, 2017

Vienna, Austria

Supersense

A neo-Gothic mansion now houses a wunderkammer of analog tech that hits on all the senses.

The edible contents of the durian have been compared to custard.

Durian

The fruit so pungent it's banned from trains, hotels, and public places.

A male waterbuck and an unlikely tsetse fly meal.

Waterbuck-Scented Cologne Can Protect Cows From Tsetse Fly Bites

How a new fragrance can help ward off a fatal disease.

Kelsey Kennedy October 18, 2017

Hello, durian.

Found: The Cause of Durian’s Oh-So-Unique Smell

The fruit's genes work overtime to pump out sulphuric compounds.

Sarah Laskow October 10, 2017

A multi-sensory scare experience.

The Smell of Pumpkin Spice Forced a Baltimore School to Evacuate

The scourge of fall strikes again.

Cara Giaimo October 6, 2017

Marobo Hot Springs

No one is quite sure of the origins of these idyllic natural hot springs at an abandoned mountain resort.

A bowl of kanga pirau.

Kānga Pirau

A delicious corn-based porridge that happens to smell like vomit.

Berkeley, California

Aftel Archive of Curious Scents

Nose around a unique collection of more than 300 natural aromas used to craft fragrances.

Not One, but Two Corpse Flowers May Soon Stink Up Chicago

Java and Sumatra are currently on display at the city's Botanic Garden.

Cara Giaimo May 23, 2017

Permanently Closed

Slicing up the durian.

New York, New York

Durian NYC

The best place in New York to pick up the controversial, notoriously foul-smelling Asian "king of fruits."

Extracting the smell of a 18th century bible in the Spangled Bedroom at Knole House.

The Odor 'Wheel' Decoding the Smell of Old Books

We finally have a tool to help describe it.

Eric Grundhauser April 6, 2017

Complaints came from South of Market, among other places.

San Francisco Was Just Subjected to a Mysterious, Gross Smell

Sarah Laskow December 29, 2016

California sea lions in their natural habitat, likely experiencing sand and kelp smells.

Sea Lions Are Surprisingly Receptive to Holiday Spices

A new study shows they love to sniff not only kelp and sardines, but orange, cinnamon and banana.

Cara Giaimo November 30, 2016

Sissel Tolaas in her studio in Berlin.

This Artist Used Over 6,500 Scents To Recreate The Smell Of 35 World Cities

Inside the very comprehensive smell library of Berlin-based olfactory expert Sissel Tolaas.

Jordan Todorov November 18, 2016

An African Pouched Rat, in training to find land mines in Tanzania.

The U.S. Has Hired Rats To Combat Wildlife Trafficking

It's the latest coup for the talented African Pouched Rat, which is already busy sniffing out land mines and tuberculosis.

Cara Giaimo October 24, 2016

Mapping the (Mostly) Sweet Scents of America's Candy Factories

Sniff or treat!

Cara Giaimo October 21, 2016

Námaskarð

A sulfuric martian landscape that looks far better than it smells.