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1	Stink and the World's Worst Super-Stinky Sneakers more books like this by M McDonald add to wishlist Stink Moodys second-grade class goes on a field trip to the Gross-Me-Out exhibit at the science museum, where Stink learns that his very own nose has amazing sniffing abilities. Soon, Stink is engrossed in sniffing toilet water, corpse flowers, and all things smelly--including his own sneakers. Illustrations. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Little Bunny Follows His Nose more books like this by Katherine Howard, J P Miller (Illustrator) add to wishlist Young readers will delight in following a little rabbit through his day, as he encounters the sights and smells of the kitchen, the meadow, the forest, the garden, and more. Includes six different fragrance labels to scratch and sniff. Full color. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.61! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Nectar: A Novel of Temptation more books like this by Lily Prior add to wishlist Ramona Drottoveo, a chambermaid in a ritzy Italian casa, has two peculiarities: her albinism, and her delicious scent--a scent that drives men mad. She marries a beekeeper but falls in love with his assistant, and flees with him to the city, where she tries to become an opera singer. Various disasters strike, but throughout it all, Ramona and her ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell more books like this by Rachel Herz add to wishlist In this startling work, Rachel Herz examines the role smell plays in our lives, and how, whether we realize it or not, the sense of smell is imperative to our well-being, both physical and emotional. In "Sense of Desire", Rachel takes the reader through the psychology of our olfactory sense, and its effect on our emotions, our health and our ... see all copies from $2.25! new only from $4.76! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Jacobson's Organ: And the Remarkable Nature of Smell more books like this by Lyall Watson add to wishlist Smell is our most seductive and provocative sense, invading every domain of our lives. We can identify our relatives by smell alone, detect the availability of a potential mate, sniff out danger and distinguish between good and bad food just with our noses. Nothing is more memorable than a smell. so why do we persist in dismissing the nose as a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession more books like this by Chandler Burr add to wishlist For as long as anyone can remember, a man named Luca Turin has had an uncanny relationship with smells. He has been compared to the hero of Patrick Suskind's novel "Perfume," but his story is in fact stranger, because it is true. see all copies from $2.56! new only from $8.97! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Emperor of Scent: A Story of Perfume, Obsession, and the Last Mystery of the Senses more books like this by Chandler Burr add to wishlist EMPEROR OF SCENT recounts the life of French scientist Luca Turin and his amazing sense of smell in his adventures to catalogue the varieties of and unlock the mysteries to fragrance. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions
8	What's That Awful Smell? more books like this by Heather Tekavec, Margaret Spengler (Illustrator) add to wishlist From the creators of "Storm Is Coming!" comes this farm mystery in which Dog, Duck, Sheep, and the other animals are desperate to find the source of an awful smell in the barn. Full color. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
9	Scents and sensuality : the essence of excitement more books like this by Max Lake add to wishlist This book stems from the premise that humans woefully neglect their powers of smell and taste, and thereby miss out on a whole range of pleasurable experiences. The author argues that the "smell brain", an organ with an earlier evolutionary history than the more complex intelligent brain, was designed both to recognize and to send out "markers", ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $34.00! \| first editions
10	Scent of Magic more books like this by Andre Norton add to wishlist An orphaned child and captive maid, young Willadene is able to sense and understand the magic odors that pervade her world. It's this remarkable talent--or curse--that carries her far from the kitchen into an apprenticeship with a revered herbalist and ultimately to the highest circles of the Ducal court. There, she will be drawn into a maelstrom ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $23.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	The Smell Book: Scents, Sex, and Society more books like this by Ruth Winter add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
12	Aroma: The Cultural History of Smell more books like this by Constance Classen, David Howes, Anthony Synnott add to wishlist Smell is a social phenomenon, invested with particular meanings and values by different cultures. Odours form the building blocks of cosmologies, class hierarchies, and political odours. They can enforce social structures or transgress them, unite people or divide them, empower or disempower. The authors argue that the sociology of smell is ... see all copies from $34.89! new only from $51.56! \| signed copies \| SVS
13 view cover	Scent & the Scenting Dog more books like this by William G Syrotuck add to wishlist see all copies from $15.98! new only from $15.98!
14 view cover	Stinky, Smelly Feet: A Love Story more books like this by Margie Palatini, Ethan Long (Illustrator) add to wishlist Douglas is very smitten with Dolores. And Dolores is quite smitten with Douglas as well. But there's a problem: one of them has stinky smelly feet. Douglas tries everything to make his feet smell sweeter but nothing works. Will this mean the end of their beautiful friendship? Full color. see all copies from $3.18! new only from $6.40! \| SVS
15 view cover	What the Nose Knows: The Science of Scent in Everyday Life more books like this by Avery Gilbert add to wishlist Take a sweeping journey through the intoxicating world of scent, as a smell scientist highlights new discoveries and reveals a startling new view of the most evocative sense. see all copies from $4.15! new only from $6.47! \| first editions \| SVS
16	Poky Puppy more books like this by E. K. Davis add to wishlist The poky puppy and his frisky brothers bring candy, flowers, fruit, and lemonade to their mother from the fair. Includes eight fragrance labels. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
17 view cover	Tasting and Smelling more books like this by Linda Bartoshuk (Editor), Edward C Carterette (Editor), Gary K Beauchamp (Editor) add to wishlist Tasting and Smelling presents a comprehensive overview to research on these two important modes of perception. The book offers a review of research findings on the biophysics, neurophysiology, and psychophysicsof both senses, as well as discussing the emotional component associated with taste and smell, and clinical disorders affecting each of ... see all copies from $62.77! new only from $65.00! \| SVS
18 view cover	Chemical Senses: Receptor Events and Transduction in Taste and Olfaction more books like this by G Brand Joseph, Joseph G Brand, Joseph G Brand (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $91.05! new only from $208.00! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The scented ape the biology and culture of human odour more books like this by Stoddart add to wishlist Both men and women devote time and effort to removing natural body odour and replacing it with sexual attractant odours derived from plants and animals - we seem to need to smell of something other than people! Yet of all the apes, we are the most richly endowed with scent producing glands. This book examines the sense of smell in humans, ... see all copies from $11.62! new only from $19.99! \| SVS
20 view cover	Common Scents: Comparative Encounters in High-Victorian Fiction more books like this by Janice Carlisle add to wishlist Who smells? Surveying nearly eighty novels written in the 1860s to answer that impolite question, Common Scents provides a new reading of Victorian values, particularly as they assess the relative merits of men and women, spirit and matter. In depictions of comparative encounters, the commonplace meetings of everyday life, such fiction often ... see all copies from $10.19! new only from $43.00! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Nosy Rosie more books like this by Holly Keller add to wishlist Meet Rose. She is a fox with a special talent. Rose can locate lost things. With her nose. One day Rose's siblings call her Nosy Rosie. It's not a nice nickname, and Rose's feelings are hurt. But the nickname sticks. How Rose regains her honor and convinces her family that she is a Rose-just Rose-is the story here. And, as with all of Holly Keller ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.17! \| SVS
22 view cover	Smell Smell more books like this by Jose Maria Parramon, Maria Rius (Illustrator), J J Puig add to wishlist Text and illustrations present interesting smells. Included is a short scientific explanation of our sense of smell, with a diagram of the nose. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.78! \| SVS
23 view cover	Scent, the Mysterious and Essential Powers of Smell: The Mysterious and Essential Powers of Smell more books like this by Annick Le Guerer, Richard Miller (Translator) add to wishlist In this entertaining tour de force into the most elusive of our five senses, Le Guerer investigates scent and its relationship to myth, psychology, religion, ritual, sex, seduction, magic, social classes, and early pharmacology and healing practices. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.30! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Odoratus Sexualis: A Scientific and Literary Study of Sexual Scents and Erotic Perfumes more books like this by Iwan Bloch add to wishlist see all copies from $15.81! new only from $19.80! \| SVS
25 view cover	The Scent of Eros: Mysteries of Odor in Human Sexuality more books like this by James V Kohl, Robert T Francoeur, Ph.D. add to wishlist "This is science at its best, with adventure, ideas, and lots of facts". -- Helen Fisher "A treasure hunt through history, literature, and scientific data". -- Gina Ogden see all copies from $5.78! new only from $12.95! \| first editions \| SVS

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