Flavour Science: Chapter 5. Perceptual Interactions in Complex Odor Mixtures: The Blending Effect

Flavour Science: Chapter 5. Perceptual Interactions in Complex Odor Mixtures: The Blending Effect
ISBN-10
0128066938
ISBN-13
9780128066935
Series
Flavour Science
Category
Science
Pages
742
Language
English
Published
2013-07-29
Publisher
Elsevier Inc. Chapters
Authors
Benoist Schaal, Charlotte Sinding, Gérard Coureaud

Description

The perception of everyday odors relies on elemental or configural processing of complex mixtures of odorants. Theoretically, the configural processing of a mixture could lead to the perception of a single specific odor for the mixture; however, such a type of perception has hardly been proven in human studies. Here, we report the results of a sorting task demonstrating that a six-component mixture carries an odor clearly distinct from the odors of its components. These results suggest a blending effect of individual components’ odors in mixtures containing more than three odorants.

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