Scent

From: Nigel Hurneyman (nhurneyman@onemeaning.com)
Date: Mon Jul 06 1998 - 01:40:26 PDT

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Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 09:40:26 +0100
From: "Nigel Hurneyman" <nhurneyman@onemeaning.com>
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Subject: Scent

Seeing last week's discussion about scented pygmies, does anyone have a formal
definition of scent?

My first guess was that it could be a chemical signal with a significant
airborne component. This would include what a cat leaves behind when it
rubs itself on your leg - undetectable to humans but instantly
recognisable by every other cat in the neighborhood.

Or is it as above, with the proviso that it must be detectable by a
human being. This would include pheromones - not detectable by the nose
but they causing your I.Q. to halve and selective amnesia of every
warning your parents ever told you.

Or is it as above, with the proviso that it must be consciously
detectable by human nose?

NigelH

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