European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 19, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                My sniff armpits which produce the strongest body odor ims pc flurries if Only to obligate doors Ollhof lower classes. Perl Emory gradually  sophist cation. Napoleon drenched himself of till Oak do Cologne. As he Lay dying on the Island of St. Helena Scon cd smoke irom burning pellets suffused his room today Only a Tew of the old pans pc plume houses still Mako their own perfumes More common than the classical Independent perfumers Are chemical wizards such As Bernard Chan. Chief perfumer Foi International flavors 6. Fragrances of now York cily Itie world s i largest company of its kind the company creates everything from perfumes to Lav rings Lor lace chips. On. Any Day Chan May to working on fragrances Lor clients products As diverse As shampoos colognes or plastic trash bags Largo soap companies Are the biggest users of fragrance one Brand uses More than 2 million pounds of scent each year. Fragrance is the strongest drive in consumer soap preferences an executive of a major soap company told Gibbons among All the attributes. I would probably rank performance at Iho Bottom men and women alike spend a great Deal of Lime ,5 and Money suppressing body doors which Are the smell of acids produced by Ballena Mela boozing skin secretions Trie most repellent doors come irom Cheapo conc glands associated Wilh underarm and \ genital hair and activated when people Are frightened it excited or aroused in the Days before modern Medicine physicians " t depended on their noses to help diagnose illness typhoid smelled like baking bread German measles like a f plucked leathers scr Oluia like stale Bear yellow lever Tike a Bulcher shop. A. Some two million amen cans suffer from anosmia. " i disorders of smell bul medical textbooks Olfer Lillie 7 guidance Lof Trealen i some anosmia Are genetic bul most result irom head injuries viral infections allergies aging or nasal obstructions. My Mimi you smell la recognize to be prepared and of course to enjoy says Bernard Chan. A perfumer sniffing a Cologne he is Crea Ting for a perfume company. Mas animals have far More sensitive noses than a humans they put i Hern to Good use because they have to protect Jhom selves against being poisoned animals rarely touch food that smells like something thai onco made them sick. Natural doors lha induce All manner of psychological or behavioural changes in a species Are called Phero nones nowhere do pc Smonos have a Moro profound effect than among insects who use the doors to organize their Complex societies. Salmon May roam thousands of Miles at sea. Then return to the River of their birth and swim upstream lol loping an odor imprinted years earlier by delegating. Urinating and marking with scent glands mammals maintain their territories and identify each other they use doors to give alarm to select food and As an inn gel pan of mating beavers keep strange beavers out of their neighbourhoods by strategically depositing . I a substance called Caslo Roum Gazelles Mark the Iii territory by depositing Larry stuff irom glands  their Oyes Reindeer have scent glands behind if Irir Hirl Loos. Rabbits Mark Wilh Chin glands cals rub against people with their Eyebrow and Rump glands dogs acute sense of smell makes Thorn Guddi Kir smiling Oul everything irom drugs and bombs to termites and Iron Ore or tracking Down fugitives. There s nothing like Iho thrill of Hunting a  Lanson no Soma. Warden of Iho Georgia state prison told Gibbons i be pulled a dog Oil a scent thinking the Man wont this Way w that anal the dog was almost always right " scientific scratch and sniff Survey National geographic a la of the nearly 11 million members of in National geographic society Aie having a Hance to participate in a Scio Lilic scratch and Sotl Survey the smell Survey described by Wilbur e Carroll editor of National Geog Ali a Magazine As Iho world s largest scientific lest Ever conducted look in months to prepare. The work was done in cooperation Wilh the Monolly chemical senses censer of Philadelphia the Survey was printed in foldout brochures inserted m the Magazine s september Issue each brochure contained six scented panels. The carefully chosen Scon is were donated by two major fragrance companies. Fun Menifi a of Geneva Switzerland and International flavors & fragrances of new York City. Each person who takes part answers a Long list of questions Aboul his or her background our scions cover ago sex medical history and other biographical data then the person smells each panel and picks Horn a list the Way the panel smells to him Langy. Cinamon sour eel scientists Hope to Lake the data and Dole imme whal makes different people sensitive to various doors Garrett sees the Survey As an Opportunity id Moke a significant scientific contribution to the under standing of smell it s the least understood of our senses and one of the most Coli Cal he says one specialist Lold Garroll that As Many people suffer from smelling deficiencies As Wear eyeglasses you May have a 20-20 nose or you May have a Blind nose bul there Are no simple ground rules Tor testing Garrett says. The Survey accompanied a 38-Page article. " f he intimate sense of smell by Boyd Gibbons of the National geographic stall. The stars and stripes Page 15