Preface ixChapter 1. Dr. Følling's Flair: Discovery of Phenylketonuria by Smell 1Chapter 2. A Nobel Prize for the Nose and Retraction in Science 5Chapter 3. Sperm and Lily of the Valley 9Chapter 4. Vibrational Theory and the Astonishing Story of Researcher Luca Turin 13Chapter 5. The Famous Madeleines: The Proust Phenomenon, a Scientific Spoliation? 17Chapter 6. The Smell of Rain 21Chapter 7. The Neanderthal Nose 25Chapter 8. Mr. and Mrs. Kallmann Have a Son: When Losing Your Nose and Losing Your Gonads Go Hand in Hand 29Chapter 9. Whiplash, or Losing Your Sense of Smell Following a Head Injury 33Chapter 10. Phantom Odors 37Chapter 11. These Odors That Make Your Head Hurt 41Chapter 12. The Sleeper's Nose 45Chapter 13. Surströmming: The Worst Odor in the World? 49Chapter 14. It Smells Like Cheese 53Chapter 15. What Fennel Reveals to Us 57Chapter 16. Mustard Goes Up My Nose and Onions Make Me Cry: Discovering a Third Unknown Chemical Sense 61Chapter 17. Lavender at the Dentist: Aromatherapy, a Myth or a Reality? 65Chapter 18. Catnip and Pregnant Women: Some Variations in Sensitivity to Odors 69Chapter 19. If You Eat Too Much Fat, You Will Lose Your Sense of Smell 73Chapter 20. Experts' Noses 77Chapter 21. Filled with Smells 81Chapter 22. Obesity and Chocolate 85Chapter 23. The Nose on the Plate: A Difficult Scientific Consensus 89Chapter 24. The Smell of a Hot Croissant: When Our Sense of Smell Nibbles Away at Our Free Will 93Chapter 25. The Dog That Sniffs Out Cancer 97Chapter 26. Smells to Cure Cancer? 101Chapter 27. A Depressed Patient's Nose 105Chapter 28. Gogol's Nose or "Empty Nose" Syndrome 109Chapter 29. She Smells Parkinson's 113Chapter 30. And What Does Parkinson's Smell Like? 117Chapter 31. Alzheimer's Nose: Losing Sense of Smell and Losing Memory, the Same Story? 121Chapter 32. The Smell of Old People 125Chapter 33. The Smell of Death 129Chapter 34. Red Meat, Garlic and Sex Appeal 133Chapter 35. Tears and Desire: Stop Crying, it Doesn't Turn Me On Anymore 137Chapter 36. With a Bad Nose, Comes a Poor Flirt 141Chapter 37. It's All in the Sweat 143Chapter 38. The Smell of Fear 147Chapter 39. What Epigenetics Owes to the Nose: How Fear Learned From an Odor can be Transmitted to Offspring 151Chapter 40. Odor and Pain 155Chapter 41. Odorology 159Chapter 42. On the Trail of Odors 163Chapter 43. The Electronic Nose 167Chapter 44. The Plane Nose: The Methods of the Fraunhofer-Institut für Bauphysik to Get Up in the Air 171Chapter 45. The Gender of the Nose 175Chapter 46. The Newborn's Nose 179Chapter 47. The Smell of a Handshake 183Chapter 48. The Nose and Perfumes 187Chapter 49. Odors... A Hobby? 191Chapter 50. Tell Me What You Smell, I'll Tell You Who You Are, But Not Where You Come From: On Genetic Variations in Odor Perception 195Conclusion 199References 201Index 223
Gerard Brand is a lecturer and researcher in Neurosciences at the University of Burgundy - Franche-Comte, France.
