Sensory Analysis and Olfactory Perception: Some Sources of Variation

Olfaction is very much present and influential in our everyday life and its day-to-day quality [1]. For instance, it has been shown by Delwiche [2] that taste and smell are rated as being the most important sensations in “flavor.” Thus, olfaction is the key to our relationship with food and in particular plays a major role in identifying it [3]. That is why significant changes in chemosensory perception have the capacity of interacting with aroma perception, diet selection, and to some extent nutritional status [4].