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What's that Smell?! Quiz

Words for odors and such...

We have an embarrassment of words to describe most of the things our senses encounter (such as words for tastes and the way things feel or look), but we use relatively few words in English to describe smells. In an attempt to balance the scales, here are a number of words for describing our olfactory experiences.

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