https://blog.yhuang.org/?p=67 here. Tue, 14 Oct 2025 11:10:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 https://blog.yhuang.org/?p=67&cpage=1#comment-90652 Enrico Uva Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:04:37 +0000 http://scripts.mit.edu/~zong/wpress/?p=67#comment-90652 The pungent smelling Durian fruit has, for most people, a very unpleasant (toiletlike) aroma when smelled orthonasally(directly through nose) but, for many, a very pleasing flavor when in the mouth and the aroma is detected retronasally(to nose from mouth).Small and colleagues compared these two distinct pathways of delivering odorants and found different patterns of neural activation depending on whether the aroma compounds are delivered ortho- or retronasally. Source: Chem. Rev. 2010, 110, 2313–2365 The pungent smelling Durian
fruit has, for most people, a very unpleasant (toiletlike)
aroma when smelled orthonasally(directly through nose) but, for many, a very pleasing flavor when in the mouth and the aroma is detected
retronasally(to nose from mouth).Small and colleagues compared these two distinct pathways of delivering odorants and found different patterns of neural activation depending on whether the aroma
compounds are delivered ortho- or retronasally.
Source: Chem. Rev. 2010, 110, 2313–2365

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