olfactory art, Burr admits, has been “completely and aggressively and successfully colonized by commercial interests.”
And then there are all the “olfactory landmarks” that live with us day to day, in laundry soaps and baby powder and new cars.
Our olfactory systems have long regarded pungency as not just innocuous but in fact pleasing.
Do odors impress some olfactory centre with images of the thing emitting them?
A strong odour of tobacco was wafted to his olfactory sense.
I do not know, although I assert that they are not olfactory organs.
The brain proper, from which arise only the olfactory and optic nerves.
What, then, represents the olfactory antenn in the scorpions?
Their olfactory passage, like that of the Palostraca, must have been ventral.
The olfactory nerve of the nation never scented their existence.
1650s, from Latin olfactorius, from olfact-, past participle stem of olfacere "to get the smell of, sniff," from olere "emit a smell, give off a smell of" (see odor) + facere "make" (see factitious).
olfactory ol·fac·to·ry (ŏl-fāk'tə-rē, -trē, ōl-)
adj.
Of, relating to, or contributing to the sense of smell.
A descriptive term for the sense of smell.
