In 1857, a perfumer named Septimus Piesse placed odors on a musical scale: camphor vibrated one octave above middle C. In 1919, Albert Heyninx proposed that the nose identifies an odor molecule by ...

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The notion of sensing the season through the penetrating pungent smell of camphor during a seasonal change of clothing has all but disappeared recently. “Urei” (sorrow) is written as a combina ...