Stories
- Comic
Smell
Sniffling and snuffling invite odour molecules to a party in your body
- In pictures
The smell of saintliness
It’s the tenth century and your local ascetic has died. Remarkably, his body emits a sweet, pleasant smell, and fragrant oils instead of foul liquids and odours. Read on to find out how this could be.
- Article
What the nose doesn’t know
Losing her sense of smell for over a year motivated Stephanie Howard-Smith to sniff out the history of treatments for this unsettling condition.
- Article
Cloves to mull, mask and numb
Sweet, pungent, warm, woody: cloves smell and taste like Christmas. But there’s much more to this spice than that.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
'Smell'
Date: Early 20th centuryReference: PP/MEL/D/3Part of: Mellanby, Sir Edward- Books
Smell and the ancient senses / edited by Mark Bradley.
Date: 2015- Books
Smell in eighteenth-century England : a social sense / William Tullett.
Tullett, WilliamDate: 2019- Books
Smell, taste, and allied senses in the vertebrates / by G.H. Parker.
Parker, George Howard, 1864-1955.Date: [1922], ©1922- Books
Smell detectives : an olfactory history of nineteenth-century urban America / Melanie A. Kiechle.
Kiechle, Melanie A.Date: [2017]
