You will need:
- Blindfolds
- 5 edible items with different smells (coffee, tea, cheese, onion, apple, etc.)
- 5 inedible items with different smells (scented candle, rose, mothballs, soap, talcum powder, etc.)
- 10 containers
Play a fun game with your friends and find out who has the capabilities to become a smell scientist!
INSTRUCTIONS
- Place each item you have in one container, and hide the containers from your friends.
- Make a list of your friends’ names to keep a tab on who gets what right.
- Blindfold all your friends, and one by one ask him to smell the object in the container and guess what it is and whether it is
edible or not. - Do not let them eat anything.
RESULT
You will be surprised to find out, that even amongst your friends there will be some with a much keener sense of smell than the others. While some can guess what a particular smell is, others might not be able to do so. But every human being has a sense of smell because of the 5-6 million yellow cells which together make up two small odour-detecting patches up in the nasal passages. Why one person’s sense of smell is better than another depends on various factors, including age, gender, etc.
