Only my best smell facts

[@goldenhandkerchief]

Time to binge all your videos

[@neithere]

What a unique experience of having my ADHD-driven 2am Wikipedia/Wiktionary dive delegated to a professional and condensed into a brief video! Thank you :)

[@markzuckerbread1865]

Thank you YT recommendation engine for this 16 view video about boismell research, liked and subbed

[@nonyadamnbusiness9887]

Excellent video. Many people don't realize that for dogs, smell is primary and sight is secondary, or maybe tertiary. I'm forever going to be amazed that my ratting terriers can pinpoint hidden animals by smell and often tell me what it is by a distinct bark.

[@HGModernism]

Yeah! That's why intelligence tests always kind of piss me off, like sure a dogs can't pass the "mirror dot test" by finding a visual dot in a mirror, but I'm sure we wouldn't pass a smell-based equivalent test

[@thatonepossum5766]

I wish I could like, mind-meld with my dog, just for a few minutes, to know what his experience of the world is like. It’s easy to imagine using hearing as a primary sense, and I can almost imagine using touch primarily, but a dog’s sense of smell is so much stronger than ours, I can’t really imagine using it as a primary sense. It’s fascinating.

[@nonyadamnbusiness9887]

@@thatonepossum5766 It helps to think of it like this: Every animal sloughs skin cells at a prodigious rate. Humans at 200 million cells per hour. So for a dog, it's like everything is dropping a temporary fine fluorescent talc and they have a blacklight. That finally help me understand how my dogs know if they are just tracking or are actually chasing something (the cells are still in the air) and how they can tell when something is up a particular tree (it's raining skin cells). Here's a Veritasium video about it. kzbin.info/www/bejne/inqvm62rd6yeiMU

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@HGModernism I've read so many "are we sure humans are even sapient? I mean, they can't even x y z in all our tests!" microfiction from the perspective of various insects, fish, birds, etc. It's a fun way to try and get alternate angles on what it means to even have "capability".

[@HGModernism]

@@kaitlyn__L Yeah I love those, I wish it was easier to imagine different ways of perceiving reality. I feel like the experiences I've heard from folks using LSD is as close as we can get.

[@crackedemerald4930]

these videos feel like i pulled a bottled fairy from a drawer and she started talking at me.

[@InfinnacageMusic]

i think i finally understand how other people feel when they talk to my autistic self xD

[@W0B0N]

Yess i feel that too!

[@tylerscott838]

I will watch every video you make if it’s half as good as this.

[@cthecheese1620]

Wonderful content, thankful to have been recommended you!

[@girlboygirl7723]

Someone might have said this already, but if you want to smell ambergris, an affordable way could be to get your hands on a sample of Not A Perfume by Juliet Has A Gun. It is centered around cetalox, which is an analog of ambroxan, the main volatile compound in amergris. Personally i really like it, and i find that it sort of smells like skin but to the extreme. The comparison to alcohol is fairly accurate as well, which makes it hard to smell if you spray it on a blotter and forget to let the alcohol evaporate first for example. Imo its best smelled on skin.

[@blackbadger344]

The algorithm knows exactly what I want now, keep it up

[@_Agosto_]

9:00 I can assure you that in Italian we have multiple words for the two English meanings of the word "smell", one of which overlaps like in English while others don't

[@Mario-cr1ik]

Way better content than channels with a million subs. Thank you.

[@Chodor101]

I've finished binging all of your videos with no particular order, please consider making 50 more and uploading them 3 minutes ago.

[@blacklinkker5679]

This video is so well produced and researched! I really hope your channel grows soon and that you get more recognition. Your content is absolutely interesting, and I look forward to watching your future videos. Please don’t ever stop!

[@kaldogorath]

But what does teen spirit smell like?

[@work1917study]

Thank you for this channel

[@xamishia]

I've had phantom smells after a concussion long ago. Usually unpleasant, lasting for 3-4 breaths. Twice I conjured smells up intentionally. Eventually it became very rare, like once every few years.

[@HGModernism]

Oh wow, when you conjured up smells were you just imagining the smell? Was there a trigger for when they would show up? I'm glad it wasn't permanent for you, that honestly sounds really awful to not be able to enjoy food.

[@xamishia]

@@HGModernism Re conjuring: yes, imagining hard, for about 20 seconds. I tried a handful of times, when high on weed, and it worked about twice that I recall. I chose pleasant smells. Re the involuntary smells: first time I was SURE it has to be a phantom smell, was smelling my grampa, who was dead, while riding my bike in open air, so there was no way it was real. No real trigger, maybe memory. That was soon after the concussion, so I actually asked doctors and they told me about phantom smells. But most times, I later noticed, there was a sort of trigger, which was expecting a strong smell of some sort. For example, opening a container of something like a detergent, for the first breath or two, the real smell would be replaced with an unrelated one. Then it would pass. Re food: I think that's your own fear, I didn't mention food.😅 I never had it happen often enough to actually bother me much or ruin a meal. It was a symptom of the brain being iffy, which wasn't great, but again, was rare enough to not really worry me. Thanks.

[@kaitlyn__L]

@@xamishia heh, I did that myself while watching this, about various moments like my brother's wedding. I was surprised how quickly the smell "came back" and then made the rest of the moment so much more vivid than just remembering the visuals or audio from the event. I definitely wasn't quite sure if I was just vividly recalling, or actually re-smelling, those scents for a good 15-20 seconds once I'd tapped-into the right memory.

[@jjrussell_gallery]

My workplace has putrescine and cadaverine in a freezer; the chemicals associated with putrefaction 🧟‍♂ I was going to sniff them, but they're both acutely toxic & corrosive (and they have no smell when frozen). Putrescine has a "fatal if inhaled" warning on the vial.

[@HGModernism]

The smell of death! D:

[@jacobscott2473]

On Cilantro (Coriander Sativum) I am one of those people for whom it tastes like soap. It's so bad that I once ordered Indian food from a new restaurant and didn't think there would be any in the dish. It was a restaurant serving meals from a part of the subcontinent that I was not very familiar with cuisine-wise, and I ended up with a dish that despite the pleasant colour and menu description tasted like someone cooked a bar of soap through the whole thing. I'm fine with coriander seeds though, in fact I quite like them, which I think is weird.

[@zestoslife]

Down here in NZ we have that really lovely looking 'tree' called cabbage tree in common use. There flowers smell lovely and pleasant, unless you have the genetics that makes them smell like vomit. I fortunately don't have this, but worked with a guy who did and given how common they are, was very unpleasant for him.

[@wizard-pirate]

You know how there's a word for how you can't picture things in your head (aphasia, I think)? I suspect there's the same sort of thing for smell, where you can't smell a smell in your head, but it's more common not to have it. I have it.

[@andruloni]

close, it's aphantasia. aphasia is a different beast

[@cruxofthecookie]

I cannot stand cilantro. One restaurant I used to frequent put it on their pasta by default; you'd have to ask for it to be excluded. On more than one occasion they'd put it on mine, learn I didn't want it, and remove it, all in the course of a few seconds. _Well,_ that brief touch made the plate inedible for forever and a day :/

[@manso306]

I've heard that for some people cilantro smell changes over time (at least from soapy to herbal, don't remember if people also mentioned the other direction), and that it doesn't actually seem to correlate perfectly with the gene you mentioned.

[@TheScourge007]

The mention of dog smell's association with their left hemisphere of their brain just made me wonder. In humans when the left and right hemisphere's of our brain are separated (typically through surgery) weird stuff happens likes people responding to stimulus that they state they cannot perceive, like saying they can't see something in their left visual field but their left hand accurately indicates what was seen. What is really interesting is that if you then ask the subject why they picked that choice they will just make up random excuses. I wonder if anything like that happens with dogs? This is complicated by dogs not being able to communicate with the level of complexity as human language does, but does a dog with a split brain make up reasons in one hemisphere for the actions of the other? Does the dog just get confused? Or do they just have the dog equivalent of "dunno, who cares" response? And I wonder how one would study that, especially without just being really cruel to the dogs?

[@HGModernism]

These are great questions! I looked into it a bit but since vet bills are so expensive, there aren't a lot of examples with dogs. There are a lot with rats though! www.mdpi.com/2073-8994/13/10/1872 This one tests short and long term memory after the hemispheres are severed.

[@evandenis5488]

Fascinating stuff! For anyone interested in more about how animals smell (and other animal senses too) I highly recommend the book "An Immense World" by Ed Yong. It has an incredible breadth of information about how animals sense the world. I wish it went a little deeper into some of the particulars (though I haven't finished it yet!), but overall an amazing investigation of what it's like to be other animals.

[@JoshButterJamal]

Still can't smell well since I got covid :(

[@BenjaminCherkassky]

1:36 these quotes are the most convincing arguments against capitalism I've seen

[@perryneum778]

Several axis of smell?!? I’m hooked

[@slowestjabroni]

hahaha it's said like "le nay". great video. loved this.

[@alexgauss8452]

2:14, is this... maybe why McDonalds always smell so mcfucking weird? Are they spoofing the smell of food in their restaurant? With limited success?

[@JamiwHalbeiw]

Why does this feel like a school presentation?

[@GunnyPerrero]

Can't find evidence that manufacturers add new car smell. Any links?

[@HGModernism]

Manufacturers explicitly tune the level of our current somewhat less harmful VOCs compared to those of the last century. In China people prefer cars to have no smell so that is possible to achieve, but in the US there is an "appropriate amount". www.caranddriver.com/features/a36970626/science-new-car-smell/ With "pumping full" I might have been conflating it with this quote: "Ozium was created in the 1940s as a sanitizing spray, but it eventually caught on with car people. Dealerships use it to freshen used cars. Car detailers use it. Car owners use it to keep their cars smelling nice." www.caranddriver.com/features/a15133792/new-car-smell/

[@joshuaperry4112]

You might find Grant Achatz' work interesting, he's a Chef.

[@Bodhibuilder]

It's only smellz

[@TVMAN1997]

I am learning a lot tonight lol

[@Jcewazhere]

Wells, I have now watched all of H.G.'s videos; awesome work! I don't have that problem with cilantro, but red dye tastes super bitter to me and my mom. Eat the rich, or tax them. Their choice.

[@HGModernism]

Oh do you know which dye? One of the "Azo" ones? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azo_dye

[@Jcewazhere]

@@HGModernism That sounds too common to be what I'm affected by. It's red and sometimes pink colored sprinkles and frosting mostly. Sometimes it'll pop up in random candies. Wild butt guess it's 'Erythrosine, also known as Red No. 3'. The amaranth ones are banned in the US, and #40 is too commonly used.

[@abc-nw3hi]

le nez! Love it 😄

[@pandaman6076]

your dog looks like a sub 3 male

[@batarnakdekosse1312]

Ayo

[@jamesphillips2285]

My used car came with not one, but two, "new car smell" air fresheners. Edit: Your pronunciation of "nez" is off. It is more like "n-eh"

[@peterarschloch3154]

a better study might be needed maybe synthesizing specific pheromones or idk there probably would be a small positive correlation bcuz somewhere we are still just animals maybe from an evolutionary psychology point of view its more true that wimin search for rizz and stability and good social points 😂 of course because its the real world its all muddy and distorted and we have free will so im saying it would be a small effect and not in every woman ive heard of wimin who like the smell of their man and vice versa ofc 😂 maybe partially kink maybe partially biology maybe they should talk to prostitutesbor like more open and sexually active wiman bcuz they can be honest in this topic and have experience 😂 and of course its a question of how strong someones super-ego is and how was he/she raised man and women always selected their mates throughout ot evolution thats why woman have more hair in average for example 😂