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On Point | Podcast

Week of Wonder: 'Vivaldi smells like breakfast sausage'

On Point | Podcast

WBUR

Talk Show, Daily News, News, Npr, On Point, Daily

4.23.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Smell can trigger memories and influence emotions. New research is giving us insight into how that happens, including why some people can "smell" music and why losing the sense of smell can alert us to what might make us sick.

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WBUR Podcasts, Boston. Of course, everyone loves the smell of a new child.

0:43.3

That sweet smell on their head.

0:46.3

It just makes you so happy.

0:49.3

I'm someone who's always loved the smells of the world. This time of year, narcissus, pine, gingerbread.

0:58.0

Striking the match, smelling that sulfur, makes me think of my father, lighting his lucky strike cigarettes.

1:07.0

When I was a child, I loved the smell of mud.

1:12.5

When I inhale that aroma, I feel a sense of vigor and aliveness, and it is like the most unique smell, my favorite smell in the entire world.

1:24.9

Patty Belforty in Medway, Massachusetts, Alicia Cohen in Portland, Oregon, and Shauna Martin from Austin, Texas.

1:33.3

All of them describing the many scents and their associated memories that make up their world.

1:39.8

This is on point. I'm Magnitok Robardi.

1:42.8

Now, our sense of smell is determined by about

1:46.2

400 olfactory receptors. Some estimates indicate those receptors could detect up to a trillion

1:53.2

smells. However, even though we rely on our sense of smell during every waking and sleeping moment.

2:02.1

Out of all the five senses, the sense of smell has often been ignored as a valid research subject by the scientific community.

2:09.7

At least, that's according to psychology professor Jonas Oliveson.

2:14.1

He directs the sensory cognitive research lab at Stockholm University in Sweden, and he's

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