SMELL OF THE DAY: PEACH BLOSSOM

Smell of The Day is about noticing and appreciating the smells around me. Just one smell. It might be a perfume, a fragrant flower, the odour of something cooking, an unpleasant smell. All smells are equal. All smells are interesting. All smells affect us. Smell of The Day posts will feature one smell that made an impact on me that day.

SMELL OF THE DAY: PEACH BLOSSOM

It’s late winter, and this year it’s been the kind of long, cold winter that I hope will end soon. Today I went for a walk in the cold, rugged up so much that I could barely move in multiple layers and my knee-length down coat. With wind chill the temperature was a brisk 2º celsius. I know that some parts of the world get much colder, but for a girl raised in sunny South Australia, 2 degrees is a shock to the system. The walk was challenging and cold, yet uplifting and energising. To reward myself at the end of it, I grabbed the secateurs and cut myself three stems of newly opened blossom from the old peach tree.

Peach blossom

Blossom is so beautiful – leafless stems dotted with clumps of flowers, both in bloom and still in bud – it creates a kind of instant, effortless Ikebana in the vase. I couldn’t resist placing them on top of my piano with my Japanese kokeshi dolls. Blossom reminds me of Japan, of the Hanami cherry blossom festivals held there in spring, and of Ukiyo-e woodblock prints.

Peach blossom and kokeshis

Peach blossom smells like honey. It’s sweet, almost in a sickly way. The smell is strong and as I sniff the blossom deeply my nose intuitively pulls back, feeling drunk with the pleasure of this overwhelming and narcotic scent, and perhaps anticipating a sneeze. The smell reminds me of sugar syrup bubbling on the stove, waiting to be made into tooth-breaking toffee. If I sniff a little less deeply, I detect a scent a little like that of sweet hay, grassy and dry. Peach blossom reminds me that the bees will soon arrive and harvest the precious, deliriously sweet pollen from this very tree. It makes me happy and reminds me that winter will soon be over. Peach blossom is the promise of spring in a vase.

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Some women lack odour-detecting part of brain but still sense smells

The olfactory bulb, a structure at the very front of the brain, plays a vital role in our ability to smell. Or, at least, so we thought. A research team has now discovered a handful of women who have a perfectly normal sense of smell but who seem to lack olfactory bulbs – completely altering our long-held views about smell. 

The team, including Tali Weiss and Noam Sobel at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, were looking for a connection between the ability to smell and reproduction. Their investigations suggested one of the female volunteers in their experiments didn’t possess olfactory bulbs. This is unusual but not remarkable: one in 10,000 people don’t have olfactory bulbs, and they can’t smell.

This woman was different. Sobel says the 29-year-old was adamant: I have a very good sense of smell, she claimed. Every test they threw at her suggested she did indeed have a good ability to distinguish odours, despite lacking the neurons typically believed necessary to do so. Then, as the researchers continued to investigate, they found another woman with the same curious condition. “We were blown away,” says Sobel. 

 Women only The researchers then turned to the Human Connectome Project, which gathers olfaction scores for all participants. They looked at information from about 600 women and 500 men, and found another three women who can smell without olfactory bulbs. None of the men had the condition. Using this data, they were able to estimate the odds of being a woman who can smell normally without these brain structures to be around 0.6 per cent. Mysteriously, the odds are raised dramatically in left-handed women. Among people who are left-handed, women who lack olfactory bulbs have a roughly four per cent chance of still being able to smell normally. Sobel says there are two suggested explanations for the findings. 

Perhaps this is just further proof as to how plastic, or adaptable, the brain is: it if lacks olfactory bulbs, it can reorganise itself so other brain regions can take on the task of odour perception. Alternatively, the discoveries might hint that we know less about our ability to smell than we thought. For now, it is impossible to distinguish between these two possibilities. Sobel says the next step is to image the brains of 500 left-handed women, with the aim of identifying about 20 with this condition. Using this larger sample size, Sobel and his colleagues want to probe the limits of the ability to smell in the absence of olfactory bulbs. Doing so could, they hope, help explain what we really need our olfactory bulbs for. Andreas Schaefer at the Francis Crick Institute in the UK says while the findings are unexpected, they make sense when you think about rodent studies and how rats can smell even after parts of the olfactory systems are lesioned. “This study is surprising and thrilling, but it makes sense,” he says. 

 Journal reference: Neuron, DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2019.10.006