Episode · Stuff You Should Know · 2023-01-07

Books mentioned on Selects: How Perfume Works

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Women consistently rate scent as the most important factor in a man's attractiveness and men have been manipulating that for centuries with scents of all sorts. Learn about the fascinating history -- and, well, art -- of making perfumes in this classic episode.

Books mentioned, in the order they came up

  1. Sensation and Perception

    Jeremy M. Wolfe, Keith Kluender, Dennis Levi, Rachel Herz, Linda Bartoshuk, Roberta Klatzky, Daniel Merfeld · at 46:33

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    “and by the way I want to give a shout out Rachel Hertz wrote a chapter for the book neurobiology of sensation and reward which is a gas in general”
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