Your House Stinks!
Modified: 2024-06-19 2:47 PM CDST
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When you return to your house after a long absence, it always seems
to smell worse than usual.
- Well, it always smells that way!
- It is
just the phenomenon of sensory fatigue (a type of sensory adaptation).
- As you live in your house,
you no longer can perceive the smells around you.
- But, while on a
trip, your nose can recover. Then when you return, you smell your
house like everyone else smells it.
- So, light those scent candles and spray that febreze!
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