The acquisition of odour hedonics

Abstract

The following is a true story about affective responses to odour. A newlywed couple had checked into an hotel the evening before. In the morning the smell of bacon drifted into their room from the kitchen below. She had grown up in a kosher home and woke up feeling sick, but he who was from a different religious background woke up hungry, urging her ‘let’s go for breakfast’.