🧠 Two sense-hacking tips for you to try.
What’s the quickest way to improve your sense of smell?
🧠 Two sense-hacking tips for you to try.
🎧 Try them before you listen to episode 03.
What’s the quickest way to improve your sense of smell?
In the words of artisan perfumer maker and the next guest Sarah McCartney:
Shut your eyes.
“If you shut your eyes you can smell better” because the brain gives priority to sight.
If you’re somewhere noisy put your noise cancelling headphones on.
To smell better in a noisy environment “just turn the sound off”.
Curious?
👉🏻 If this whets your curiosity…
Stay tuned for Episode 03
Creating perfumes with artisan perfumer Sarah McCartney
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Meanwhile, some science…
✈️ Airplane Noise and the Taste of Umami
😝 By Charles Spence, Barry Smith, Charles Michel
🎧 Try noise cancelling headphones to improve the flavour of your in-flight meal and drinks.
“Have you ever noticed how many people ask for a Bloody Mary or tomato juice from the drinks trolley on airplanes? The air stewards have, and when you ask the people who order, they will tell you that they rarely order such a drink at any other time. Could it be that umami-rich tomato provides one of the only basic tastes that is relatively unaffected by the loud background noise that one is exposed to while in flight?”
Via Research Gate, 2014, read here.
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