Human Senses: On the Nose

Duration: 600

Year Published: 1982

Creator: National Geographic Society

Complete Record: Close up of noses. People smelling things. Boy smells food, chef smells cooking, A man smokes a pipe. flowers, a flower market. Fish being unpacked from ice. A skunk, cows, soap. A woman putting on face mask. A guy putting on deodorant. A woman spraying air freshener in her kitchen. A man lighting a cigar. Exhaust from a pipe, pollution, a refinery or plant. A family Barbecue with DOG. A wolf smelling. A rabbit, giraffes, lions, an elephant raising their trunk. A sausage coil and veggies on a grill. Pizza. Bread baking. Bacon in a pan. Burning toast. A couple walking through a Forrest in puffy vests. An animated cross section of a boy’s head, displaying smell mechanisms. Experiments on smell with a fan. A baby walking through the forest in yellow rain coat. Flowers. Dingy locker room with dirty shoes and socks. Scientists in lab coats with a baby in the laboratory. A doctor handing a newborn to it’s mother. P.O.V. from baby stroller. Gray haired man reading New York Times in living room, smoking a pipe. A little girl is with him reading on the floor. Man reads story to the girl. A group of professional “Noses” describing soap scents. A waiter uncorking a wine bottle. A man smelling a cork. A chef pouring wine into something. People eating in a restaurant. Shot of a brush fire, running animals. Couples holding hands. Store shelves filled with products. Inter-cut shots of a man and a woman grooming in front of the bathroom mirror. A woman searching through a trunk, finds a pipe, remembers older man. Shots of scented products. A mother and daughter in a bakery. Pollution, trash disposal, garbage trucks. Non smoking and smoking signs in an airplane cabin.