Introduction

Chapter 1. Odors in the Mind ~ Making sense of scents

Chapter 2. The Molecules that Matter ~ The key ingredients of Nature’s chemistry set

Chapter 3. Freaks, Geeks, and Prodigies ~ The wide range of olfactory ability

Chapter 4. The Art of the Sniff ~ How the brain edits what the nose detects

Chapter 5. A Nose for the Mouth ~ Cooking, eating, and evolution

Chapter 6. The Malevolence of Malodor ~ When bad smells happen to good people

Chapter 7. The Olfactory Imagination ~ Smell and creative genius

Chapter 8. Hollywood Psychophysics ~ Scent and cinema

Chapter 9. Zombies at the Mall ~ Leading consumers by the nose

Chapter 10. Recovered Memories ~ Proust’s soggy madeleine

Chapter 11. The Smell Museum ~ Preserving odors from the past

Chapter 12. Our Olfactory Destiny ~ The future of smelling