ODOUR
AND CULTURE
 General
odour interest
www.senseofsmell.org
The Sense of Smell Institute's mission is to be a leading global
resource relating to the sense of smell and its importance to
human psychology, behavior and quality of life. We encourage
exploration into the broader multisensory context of smell,
including its interplay with taste.
http://ojr.usc.edu/content/spike.cfm?request=735
On research into using smells in crowd control, political action
etc.
www.hhmi.org/senses/
A report on Seeing, Hearing and Smelling from the Howard Hughes
Medical Institute
Health
related information on compounds
http://www.epa.gov/iriswebp/iris/index.html
The Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), prepared and
maintained by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.
EPA), is an electronic data base containing information on human
health effects that may result from exposure to various chemicals
in the environment.
http://atsdr1.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxfaq.html#-A-
For (USA) information on toxic and carcinogenic risks of a compounds
ATSDR ToxFAQsTM is a series of summaries about hazardous substances
being developed by the ATSDR Division of Toxicology. Each fact
sheet serves as a quick and easy to understand guide.
Research
on olfaction
www.odour.civeng.unsw.edu.au
Environmental Odour Laboratory (Universidad of New South Wales,
Sydney Australia)
ww.achems.org
The Association for Chemoreception Sciences (AChemS) aims to
integrate the diverse groups of investigators interested in
basic and clinical research on taste and smell.
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ecro.cesg.cnrs.fr
The goal of European Chemoreception Research Organisation (ECRO)
is the promotion of research in olfaction and Taste.
senselab.med.yale.edu/senselab
The SenseLab Project is a long term effort to build integrated,
multidisciplinary models of neurons and neural systems, using
the olfactory pathway as a model. epn.hal.kagoshima-u.ac.jp/JASTSE/
Japanese Association for Taste and Smell
Misc
www.leffingwell.com
Leffingwell & Associates: Services and Software for the
Perfume, Flavor, Food and Beverage Industries
www.flexitral.org
Flexitral is a company that designs odorants and is currently
generating proprietary alternatives to some of the fragrance
compounds on the European Union list of potential allergens
(SCCNFP)
Please contact Ton
van Harreveld with any suggestions for odour links.
Publications
& Books
Technical/Scientific
To find the most recent publications please click here
General odour interest
Burr, Chandler
The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the
Last Mystery of the Senses
January 2003
Classen, Constance, David Howes, and Anthony
Synnott.
Aroma: The cultural history of smell. London: Routledge, 1984.
Corbin, Alain.
The Foul and the fragrant: Odor and the French social imagination.
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1986.
Engen, Trygg
Odor Sensation and Memory.
New York: Praeger,1991.
Stoddart, D. Michael.
The scented ape: The biology and culture of human odour.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.
Vroon, Piet.
Smell: The secret seducer.
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997
Van Toller, Steve, and George H. Dodd (Editors).
Perfumery: The psychology and biology of fragrance.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1988.
Fiction
Suskind. Patrick
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
February 2001
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