Do women smell better than men? I recently came across this question in Corpus (educational center) in Leiden and I thought it would be interesting to investigate this further. Various studies have been carried out using, among other things, our smell tests (such as the Extended Test and UPSIT smell test) to look at the […]
We are getting a lot of questions about the test procedure for the ODOFIN Sniffin’ Sticks threshold test. In the manual for the threshold test you can find the complete instructions and also an example for the staircase test procedure of the threshold test. To support this instruction, we have made a video that you […]
Over a century ago, Marcel Proust (1871-1922) described the French protagonist in his novel À la recherche du temps perdu (first translated into English as Remembrance of Things Past, but now commonly referred to as In Search of Lost Time) dipping a Madeleine in a cup of tea and having aroma-triggered flashbacks to his youth. Experiencing a “Proustian moment” […]
The sense of smell is crucial in our daily lives. Therefore, it is not surprising that a reduced sense of smell negatively affects the quality of life. A possible therapy depends on the cause of the disturbed sense of smell. This can be, for example, medication or smell training. Often one is only aware of […]
