The Power of Scent
Preface.- How Smelling Works.- The Nose never Sleeps.- Three Specialists for Perfect Taste.- Happiness Makers for the Brain.- The Good Sense of Smell in Animals.- The Secret Messages of Pheromones.- The Scent of Flying Sex Machines.- Deception and Trickery with Irresistible Scents.- Nobody Smells as Good as You.- Cold Sweat and Baby Scent.- Diagnostics with the Nose.- Smelling with Skin and Hair.- Scents as Therapy Aids.- Fragrances against Tumor Cells.- When Scents Go to Our Heads.- When the Nose Goes Blind.- Of Stinky Fruits and Moldy Cheese.- Get Slim Faster with Bitter Substances.- The Scent of Christmas.- The Sophisticated Palate Games of Wine.- Whether Drugs or Truffles: Dogs are Perfect Sniffers.- Detection Dogs in Medical Use.- Animal Super Noses Help Humans.- Divine Fragrances and Worldly Perfumes.- In the Frenzy of Fragrances.- Marketing with a Feel-Good Factor.- From Smell Training to Brain Jogging.- The Future: eNoses in Medicine.- Truffles, Tea, and Bugs: Searching for Species with the eNose.- Nanoprostheses and Natural Replacement Noses.
