I held the carrot up my nose. My friend iced the skin to numb it and then the needle was through.   I was twenty years old when I got my nose pierced, a pivotal moment after a decade of... Read more >>

Do you ever catch a whiff of something you know isn’t there: sulfur, bad perfume, a gas leak, or another mysterious odor that isn’t present in reality? That’s just what happened to... Read more >>

Everybody’s seen an elderly person whose nose and ears look thismuch too big for his head. In fact, what elderly person doesn’t look that way? (Just joking, elderly people!) This... Read more >>

Most women have had the mysterious experience of being turned on by a partner’s smell. A friend of mine once told me her ex-boyfriend’s scent made her feel “safe and drawn to... Read more >>