Coffee smells good, there is no doubt about that. But now it turns out that you can actually use coffee to help smell other things better too. It'll probably sound familiar to the ladies among you: when you go out shopping for a new perfume and you have tried out a few fragrances, you can hardly tell one from the other. It all has to do with nasal fatigue, the receptors in our nose getting less and less sensitive to certain smells, hence making it more and more difficult to distinguish one from the other. Neuroscientist Noam Sobel from the UC Berkely has now proven that smelling coffee in between will cleanse your nasal palate so you can take in all the sweet odours to their fullest again. So next time you want to buy perfume, take your cup of coffee along! And for those out to shop for coffee beans, this trick works the other way around too: after a few sniffs of coffee beans you can clean your nasal palate by sniffing your very own skin.
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candida
22/5/2013 06:07:27 pm
Learned something again.So I didn't know that coffee influences your taste buds!
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