Mar 22 2025 - And the Smell Is

 

I heard this on the radio this week while in a store, perhaps Dollarama.  The question of the day was posed with some prize in store for the correct answer.  I looked it up online and found this: Happy Monday! Here is today's Nearly Impossible Question! from Cubby and Christine Mornings of 106.7 FM Q: 93% of people can recognize this smell in 1 second...what is it? A: Peanut butter The post was from 2023, so maybe they repeat these fun questions.   All kinds of interesting things relate to smell - asking the question about what can we all identify within 3 seconds brings a raft of "Smell Stories" A Reddit post goes like this: What is up with thrift store smell? Can anyone explain? It's a combination of sweat, oil, skin, and other things the human body might make, plus things like gasoline, car exhaust, food, perfume, and ...  Here's the Quora retrieval for the question: "There is a true story of a woman named Joy Milne who thought her husband suddenly smelled bad. She had him try bathing more, using cologne, deodorant… you name it, but he could not shake that musky smell. However, here is the funny thing, no one else could smell what she smelled on him. It wasn’t until 12 years later he was diagnosed with Parkinson's and she was introduced into a room of other patients that she noticed they all smelled of this musky smell. Her observation piqued the interest of scientists who decided to research what she could smell, and whether this could be harnessed to help identify people with the neurological condition. During the study, she was able to identify all the Parkinson patients by smell and only made one error where she identified a person in the control group as well. Funny enough, this person in the control group later developed Parkinson's. In 2019, researchers at the University of Manchester announced they had identified molecules linked to the disease found in skin swabs. The scientists have now developed a test using this information all thanks to Ms. Milne who could smell Pa"rkinson's disease when no one else could. So maybe you too have a heightened sense of smell. I went and verified the story so you can read about Joy's story HERE.  I guess smell is a topic now that Spring is here.  It is in the air  - the smell of moist earth, decayed leaves and witch hazel blossoms,  which have a rose scent.

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