That musty smell could be more than just your old clothes, experts say.

Smell can evoke powerful memories, subtly influence attraction, and even regulate stress. But research suggests that what we sense depends as much on experience as on biology.

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The sense of smell, it turns out, is highly individual—a scent that is enticingly floral to one person may be off-putting and chemical to another. Researchers in Germany -recently asked 1,227 ...

The "world smells different" for people with Parkinson's disease, a discovery that could help doctors spot the condition sooner ...