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Sensory science

How published explainers separate smell, taste and flavour, and where those accounts stop.

A glass of water, a cut orange and coffee beans on a pale wooden board

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The distinction page uses two wine explainers. It is not a diagnosis of smell or taste loss.

Smell is not the same sense as taste separates orthonasal smell, retronasal flavour and the five tastes named on the page.