Human beings, in general, do not smell their own odor, and that is normal. As it accompanies us since our birth, it is too familiar to us. It is due to microscopic and volatile odorous molecules that we breathe and which stimulate the ten million olfactory receptors that we have in the nose. The information is then sent to the brain, which analyzes it.
But these receptors being continuously stimulated by our own body odor, the olfactory system becomes familiar, adapts, the sensitivity to this odor decreases, and finally, we no longer smell it at all.
This process of olfactory adaptation, which exists in all animals, is vital: the brain, by not taking smells into account…
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