How to Smell Different Things

Chris says our nose and senses really are difference detectors. They aren't meant to give us a constant report on what's happening. There's something called odor fatigue and you have sensory adaptation. And so the people who live in a home cannot smell it the way a guest smells it. But because you are only an occasional visitor, your nose is telling you, hey there's the smell here. So they don't smell it and you do smell it.

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