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This edition of Shortcuts is sponsored by The Odors. our sense of smell is linked to Hello. What do cats the parts of your brain that process wear to smell pretty? I love you. emotions, memory and learning. Certain Purrfume. Won't you smells can create strong feelings, or even smell me bring back long-forgotten memories. should be today? These are probably important factors This stored away from contributing to the popularity of the cartoon offends heat and sunlight. more than 30,000 different types of my olfactory perfumes in the world that drive a senses. $10 billion industry. Fragrances are often categorized by the amount of scent material they contain. True perfumes contain Can you find the hidden words? between 15 to 40 percent scent material. "Eau de Search carefully because some toilettes" contain an average of about 10 percent. Archaeologists believe many words are backward or diagonal. ancient cultures created "Eau de colognes" contain an average of about 5 FRAGRANCE SCENT MUSK percent. Eau de colognes usually last around two scented perfumes using CEREMONY TRAIL herbs, spices and flowers. HERB hours, while eau de toilettes may last as long as COLOGNE RESIN HEAT four hours. True perfumes The ancient Egyptians began SPICE LEAF Can you spot all six differences between these two scenes? may last as long as 6 hours. using perfume as part of BARK BOB their religious ceremonies SMOKE ROOT TEN Many perfumes are more than 4,000 years ago. H A M S T E R D A N C E S made using materials gathered from E A T O K E T T I N C A C plant parts such as flowers, bark, roots, leaves The trail of scent R B O O K A N S I N E V E and resins. Other scents are created from animals left by a person wearing B R M E E T E G A I R A N such as musk deer, sperm whales, beavers, civets and perfume is C S O H M R A R O V E R T How do honeybees. Synthetic fragrances are designed called you buy perfume? H P B L U E G U L L M B E by chemists who create scents "sillage." You pay through A I B A F A C E I U O W N not found in nature. the nose. N C H A R T S A S B N C O E E E F E K R K E Y Y E S Why was the illogical perfume fired?

One of the L L O O P T O W N E S T S world's first chemists moved. is Cloud 6. missing. is Bird 5. missing. is Leaf 4. different. is Tail 3. different. are Eyes 2. She didn't make any

was a woman named Tapputi, different. is Mouth 1. ANSWERS: GAME scents. who was listed as a perfume- During the 1600s and maker in a 3,000-year- 1700s, perfumes were used mainly by the Chanel old Mesopotamian wealthy to hide body odors that resulted launched her own brand tablet. from poor bathing habits. of perfume in 1921. She named her now-famous perfume Chanel No.5 because it was the fifth fragrance in a line of 10 samples presented to her by Ernest Beaux.

The word perfume comes from the Latin words Who predicted meaning "through the invention of perfume? smoke." Nose Stradamus.

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