Human Senses 1. Smell and Taste (20 of 21)

Human Senses

For each of us some bad smells really kick through and others, we end up almost liking.
So for the Monell team creating a smell no one can bare has been quite a challenge.
They had to find a way to trigger everyone's most awful memories.
Their brew contains a mix of highly concentrated stinks.
Cadavorine the smell of rotting flesh dead bodies.
The smell of a bathroom mall odour.
Their exact recipe is a secret.
But they had to get precisely the right amounts of each ingredient to make sure they all come through in the mix.
The smell of er vomit, er butyric acid.

Which will be the smell of vomit.
They call their secret formula ''stench soup'' So is this really the most potent combination of bad smells ever created?
It 's time to put it to the test.
A brave group of volunteers have agreed to get a nose full of it.
Well first l'm just going to apply a few electrodes to your skin.
The scientists aren't taking any chances.
Even though this is an airtight room, the smell is so powerful that they will only let people sniff it from inside a suction hood, to make absolutely sure none of the stench escapes into the rest of the building.
Ok.
Everything seems to be good here.