Power of Scent

Hanns Hatt, Professor of Cell Physiology at Ruhr University Bochum, holds doctorates in zoology, human physiology and medicine. He is one of the world's most renowned odor researchers.Regine Dee is a journalist and author. She works for various science magazines and also writes and publishes biographies.

• Preface.- How Smelling Works.- The Nose never Sleeps.- Three Specialists for Perfect Taste.- Happiness Makers for the Brain.- The Good Sense of Smell in Animals.- The Secret Messages of Pheromones.- The Scent of Flying Sex Machines.- Deception and Trickery with Irresistible Scents.- Nobody Smells as Good as You.- Cold Sweat and Baby Scent.- Diagnostics with the Nose.- Smelling with Skin and Hair.- Scents as Therapy Aids.- Fragrances against Tumor Cells.- When Scents Go to Our Heads.- When the Nose Goes Blind.- Of Stinky Fruits and Moldy Cheese.- Get Slim Faster with Bitter Substances.- The Scent of Christmas.- The Sophisticated Palate Games of Wine.- Whether Drugs or Truffles: Dogs are Perfect Sniffers.- Detection Dogs in Medical Use.- Animal Super Noses Help Humans.- Divine Fragrances and Worldly Perfumes.- In the Frenzy of Fragrances.- Marketing with a Feel-Good Factor.- From Smell Training to Brain Jogging.- The Future: eNoses in Medicine.- Truffles, Tea, and Bugs: Searching for Species with the eNose.- Nanoprostheses and Natural Replacement Noses.