TED-Ed should do one of these videos for each sense.

Learning to taste is also really awesome. I know they kind of go together but they are a bit different. I used to be a coffee taster on different coffee from around the world. We would taste or known as cupping in the coffee industry everyday after roasting the coffee the previous day. Basically the more you practice the better you get at deciphering the smells and tastes. Not to mention its kind of classy to be able to give tasting notes on different drinks. Dang I miss that job haha

I love the fact that smells can bring up so many specific memories. It sounds weird but I loved the smell of my ex-boyfriend's breath. I can distinguish all of my grandparents just because of their smell! A specific perfume of mine reminds me of an specific stage in my life (when I would wear it often). I love how each person has their own unique smell. It may sound nasty to many but I actually like a lil bit of a sweat smell on men. (Am I sharing too much here? Just throwing facts)

3:43 "To get started, take ingredients from the kitchen: spiced, vanilla, or fruit, but never anything toxic." Okay. *snorts cinnamon*

Follow-up video: How to master your sense of smell without looking like a creep.

I just smelled my USB drive, Keyboard and Phone !! I gotta say tacos everywhere

I'm gonna freak people out by sniffing at every object in my proximity now

Ever since I was a kid smell really had a strong place in my senses, I have kind of a list of smells that I associate with people I've been close to in my life. I work with different types of explosives and I totally get why sniffer dogs are good at what they do, each one has a really unique odour before and after detonation. Before my current job I use to work in the emerge department and some diseases you could smell from a mile away, diabetes is the perfect example because if it's poorly managed they kind of smell like nail polish remover. You can smell when a person has a fever almost to the level that if your use to the smell you can kind of gather a hunch as to if they are fighting off a virus or a bacterial infection. You can smell a person sweating out drugs, both illegal and prescribed and when people die, or just before they die you can smell death, the expression "the sweet smell of death" is totally true imagine a steak with a very light spritz of perfume and that's the right idea

I sniffed my phone. So if it gets lost i can find it. It's probably my first priority

this video made me sniff chocolate milk powder now its stuck up my nose

Alfie, what are you doing sniffing the door knob?

I'm too self-aware to try out these steps. Fuck that would look goofy in public.

I've linked my appetite with smell. My moto is "If isn't doesn't smell good, it doesn't taste good". After all, we learn more from our world as we smell it, which ultimately helps us to make decisions.

I can smell an orange from the opposite room of house It would be awesome but I hate everything about oranges

I was never able to breath through my nose as a child due to allergies, and for the majority of my life I've just ignored the sense. I am terrible at distinguishing between scents and I often confuse them.

day 2 Smoke-free. tomorrow I'll be able to smell like a non-smoker. I'm so glad

first step: stop smoking

My friend always says I have oddly specific descriptions of smell. Not exactly strong sense of smell but I can distinguish lots of things in one smell. One time I smelled a soap in lush that smelled of my grans perfume, superglue, and purple starburst. It was kind of gross.

Time to begin my sniffing adventure. Wish me luck.

YES! I've always wanted to smell like Dr. Hannibal Lector!

I like to think that I have a higher than average sense of smell to compensate for my hearing. I can smell chunky peanut butter from smooth peanut butter, rice and it's relative age, and much more. I once smelled a friend who I've met only a couple of times from across an auditorium at a jazz concert, even when there was a bowl of chinese food in front of me. And if I'm smelling right, you're bored.

우리의 후각을 단련하는 방법에 대하여 배워보는 시간이 되었습니다. 우리가 어떻게 냄새를 맡는지에 대해서도 배웠습니다. 유익하고 재미있는 시간이 되었습니다. 감사합니다.

Good video but I would suggest adding continual qualification into the mix, I.e. Smells like read fruit, cherry, fresh cherry, fresh black cherry and so on. I've had people get very frustrated when they here experts speak very specifically and they don't realize there's a process to it. Also I have to disagree about sharp sniffing. I've always gotten more types of scents and better descriptors when taking deep, controlled even breaths. I would compare sharp sniffing to going into a museum and walking as quickly as possible up to a painting. Also should keep in perspective molecular size. When smelling wine, I'm not trying to smell big fat ethanol chains, I want to smell tiny little polyphenol rings first. I'd suggest also what I call environmental smelling, where you start off just breathing in and try and hone into a certain smell. Can be done blind or known, but it helps explore intensity as well as experiencing it in combination with other smells, since rarely do we ever smell just one thing at a time. It's also a great way to explore directionality with smell and play with how we use scent in mapping our environment.

So, its 2020 now and Demon Slayer be epic.I know there are weebs here....And for all of the weebs, Im watching you...

All of the old books my dad brought from his childhood home (like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Dr. Seuss books, etc.) have a distinctive smell.

I work in a library, I'm not smelling books. Sometimes you can't help but smell them anyway >.< lol

Tried smelling some white powder, high now

The animated guy looks so funny

I'm like this! When I came home from school I would always guess correct what my mom was cooking. She would get surprised and It made me feel like a boss because no one else could do it.

I love this animator, I wish you guys could Black powder on here more often

I’m boutta become tanjirou in a few seconds.

I found this candle that smelled exactly like my favourite book and stationary shop in my hometown :D it literally looked like out of a ghibli movie because there where soo many things all over the little shop and the woman that owned it ( literally the oldest woman in our town) lived over the shop and she had the most beautiful rural backyard :D i really need to find that candle again because that store closes years ago :( amazing what scents can do :D

It seems that my Smell Vocabulary has me sniffing at a third grade level.

thanks God I have realy good sense of smell ..I can even understand allot of dlsmell

I love the smell of cold cold breeze. I don’t know why but when I go food shopping, I pick up some steaks and smell the refrigerator instead of the meat. 😂

My trick: wet the tip your nose. The moisture draws in more smells. That's why your sense of smell increases after you get out of the shower.

Don't do this in chemistry class, when reacting ammonium salts with alkali ( OR ANY CHEMICAL BASICALLY)

I have a very strong sense of smell even I can smell what are the ingredients in some kind of foods I'm proud of it ❤

I love the blend of proper science, and culture.

If there wasnt a sniffing sound effect every 2 seconds I would be able to watch this video lol...

So I've been training myself this whole time and never knew it.

Good Information☺☺

Did anyone else sniff their phone?

this smells fishy

Unless you are me since I apparently don't have as many olfactory receptors. If you have packets of salad pas (probably bad spelling) you know they are VERY minty. I can inhale through my nose deeply in these packets and only have a minor reaction to it being minty instead of feeling like my nose is on fire.

Love this video and love the animations. Great work!

I applaud you Ted-Ed, great video, great work

I love the way girls smell. Their hair and shampoo. Their natural skin aroma :)

I always sniff things before eating or drinking them, I consider it as important as tasting. I get weird looks sometimes though and the occasional question, often "has it gone bad?". people don't like to see you sniff things even discreetly

actually im really good at smelting food and the ingredients in them i also can smell differences between people

This was a quite interesting topic. Thanks

Thumbs up if you started smelling things around your keyboard..

I wanted you all guys to make video on cosmos or on quantum mehanics . will you guys do it?

I gotta buddy who is the best in smelling. If you fart he will tell exactly what dish you ate 🤣

there's a norwegian artist that came up with a vocabulary for smells

Vladimir Horowitz still the best Horowitz

2:01 She is like, "WTF, dude!!"

I used to have such an insane sense of smell but after I gott COVID it haven't been the same since.

my best sense is touch, and one time my friend closed my eyes gave me five things, bread, a marker, a bottle, her ring, and a pen, and I got them all right.

knew where this one was going

Thanks , now I am the real Tanjiro

Honestly, I feel like a majority of people can't smell their food well enough (and I mean when it's inside your mouth). Kids would appreciate vegetables a lot more if they used their smell more than their taste. I know people who literally can't tell the difference between frozen and home made food (like pizza).

Thanks for explaning those sniff training i sniffed every moments and keep practicing because i want to be a perfumer Thanks for uploaded it

What about those of us who have no sense of smell? Due to a head injury, i have not been able to smell anything (zero percent) for over 20 years. Have those memories of places and people vanished?

To recognize a smell I try to bring up the memory that is linked to that smell, this is the hardest part, then I slowly go through the memory sequence and look at everything that could have possibly emitted a similar smell. Plus...The Channel NO. 5 perfume just smells like baby powder, with some jasmine.

0:25 that hissing sound scared the hell out of me

I smell things all the time and my friends think that it’s weird, but I don’t care because smelling is my superpower 😌

narration and topic is good ,but what had happened to ted ed's animation ?

The nose is so great I really liked this video Well done here, TED-ed :)

Very fitting Video because i am reading "The Perfume" by Patrick Süskind at the moment :D

This reminds me of the panel of smell experts in Hannibal.

Anyone else thought the olfactory epithelium looked like a cute little caterpillar stuck horrifyingly up our nose?!?!!!

Sometimes my sense of smell gets so good ,that i can even smell my booger

The thumbnail caught my *eye.*

Sniffing makes your experience more enjoyable And it makes your nose bigger

My family are looking at me weirdly... 😂

can you do this for sight and hearing

why am I watching this? I can already smell the morning coffee breaths and people who didn't brush their teeth breath from across the subway car. I don't wanna train to smell those even stronger

I love this.

Great video

*video summary:* pay attention to your environment because there is always some scent of something around and sniff actively. well, i would have expected a bit more in-depth and tricks or certain ways to actively increase your sense of smell. for example, as a cigar smoker you do not - since we don't inhale - blow out the smoke through your nose. however, there's a technique that allows you to do blow the smoke that is "sitting" in your mouth through the nose, which is called a retro hale. there's lots of stuff to it.

Good video

I'm stupidly smelling my glasses now XD

I guess would be a good perfumer 😁🌺

Hellen keller:*smells me* so you're a bad cook me:nope im an astronaut (space partialy smells like burnt steak)

Instructions unclear, got hand in shredder

If I can make a subtitles in another language, can I add them to the video?

My sense of smell degraded after the use of insecticid in my home to kill bed bugs. 😢

I would do this but I'm scared I'll become ill from all the germs I suck up with my nose.. Any way to prevent this?

when it said to put your nose right on the thing you want to smell I looked around and saw a blanket and in like "idc lets use that"

is It possible for my brain to trigger smells like I imagine burning plastic and I smell burning plastic because that's something I can do for some weird reason

I can smell a persons scent and tell if they sleep with many partners. I can also tell if it is a male and or female that they are sleeping with or cheating on their partners. I can smell other odors and pick up on what is different in my home. I can touch a penny and mentally taste it. I can imagine a rose in my mind and smell it. One of my other sisters has the same ability. My sister would tell me about a co-worker that was sleeping with different men during her lunch hour because her scent would change and just so you know many partners makes your scent rancid. The more the worse the smell is. During covid I offered a friend to stay in a separate place I had upstairs with a private entrance. His scent was so rancid but I was confused so I had to confront him and ask if he was sleeping around or in a relationship. He said I am sleeping with both men and women. I asked him to leave the following day because this is not a time to be doing this when we have an epidemic. My sister had to help me clean the place and remove that scent and I have to tell you it took me a month of cleaning everyday and burning incense to get the smell out.

But how can I smell if my nose is always blocked or half-blocked.

Why is their film grain?

I suddenly remember the movie, The Story of tbe Murderer, I don't know if that's the exact title

I have congenital anosmia

What if you lost the whole sense? How would you treat it?

Thank you now i'n dizzy from sniffing

How to get rid of oily skin?

I won't think about this everytime I breathe.