Do You Smell What I Smell?
CrowdScience
BBC
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2018
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
We may take our ability to smell for granted but it’s a far more complex sense than many people realise. Listener Annabel wants Crowdscience to investigate why perfume makes her queasy, so Anand Jagatia sets out to discover why we can’t all agree when we follow our noses. He gets a whiff of the world’s stinkiest flower - and finds some people enjoy it – then asks what’s happening in the brain when we love or hate a scent. But could our different perceptions about this under-appreciated sense actually come down to a lack of words to describe it? He hears about one culture which has developed its own language for smell. Presenter: Anand Jagatia Producer: Marijke Peters
(Image: A woman smelling roses. Credit: Getty Images)
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're about to listen to a BBC podcast and maybe it's when I had a hand in. |
| 0:04.0 | I'm Tammy Walker and I produce podcasts for the BBC. |
| 0:08.0 | My role is to give new and diverse creators a voice with the opportunity to build a career. |
| 0:12.0 | That's the thing I love about podcasts. |
| 0:14.4 | You start with just a good idea, but then you have the space to see where it goes. |
| 0:18.4 | And doing that at the BBC means we can really run with the best stories |
| 0:21.9 | while developing the most unique audio talent. |
| 0:24.3 | So if you like what you hear, why not check out the huge range of podcast we've got on BBC |
| 0:29.1 | Sounds. |
| 0:29.6 | So just what grab the skirt and stick your nose in. |
| 0:37.0 | Hello and welcome to crowd science from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm Anand Jagatier. |
| 0:43.0 | Oh, that's so horrible. |
| 0:45.0 | And it's so like vivid, the red inside. |
| 0:50.0 | And I'm currently getting a big old whiff of Titan Aram. |
| 0:54.0 | Latin name is a mofofallus Titanum which means gigantic misshapen penis. |
| 1:00.0 | Also known as... |
| 1:01.0 | Fat Guy. |
| 1:02.0 | Fat Guy. Fat guy. |
| 1:04.0 | Stinky. |
| 1:07.0 | One of our multiculturalists actually calls it, El Stinkle. |
| 1:11.0 | Exposing me to this rather Eelstinko. |
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