What the Nose Knows - Avery Gilbert [113]
The horizon’s edge, the flying sea-crow, the fragrance of salt
marsh and shore mud,
These became part of that child who went forth every day,
and who now goes, and will always go forth every day.
—WALT WHITMAN, Leaves of Grass
Acknowledgments
For encouraging me to write this book in the first place, I thank Barbara Ivins and Mandy Aftel. For advice on how to go about it, and moral support during the writing of it, I thank Tom Higgins and Lisa Verge Higgins, and my excellent agent, Michelle Tessler. The expert guidance of my editor, Lucinda Bartley, made this a better book.
I benefited from the insights and recollections of the many people I interviewed. For helping me reconstruct the history of Smell-O-Vision and AromaRama, I thank Carmen Laube, Novia Laube, Glenda Jensen, Hal Williamson, Ronnie Reade, Luz Gunsberg, Paul Baise, John Waters, Mark Gulbrandsen, James Bond, Steve Kraus, and Denise Garrity. For sharing with me their scientific and technical expertise on olfactory matters, I thank Kari Arienti, René Morgenthaler, Terry Acree, Eric Berghammer, Eran Pichersky, Steven Sunshine, James Woodford, and Paul Breslin. Over the years I have benefited from discussions of smelly topics with Paul Rozin, Gary Beauchamp, and Michael O’Mahoney. Roman Kaiser deserves special thanks for helping me track down the molecule that inspired John Muir in the Sierra Nevada so long ago.
I am grateful to everyone who gave me a hand here or there; without these graciously provided assists, I could not have completed this work. These friends and colleagues include Gregg Rapaport, Owen Brown, Felix Aeppli, Jeff Freda, Dennis Passe, Jim Walker, Jennifer Stevenson (and her pals Marge Kriz, Alan Rafaelson, and Herb Kraus), Peter F. Stucki, Bernadette Meier, Jeanine Delwiche, Charlotte Tancin, Ernest Sanders, Candace Jackson, Laurence Dryer, John Lundin, Kat Anderson, Gordon Shepherd, Mark B. Adams, Gunnar Broberg, John Canemaker, Betty Gilbert, Tirza True Latimer, John Prescott, Harris Jones, Mark Greenberg, Steve Jellinek, Marci Pelchat, Alan Fridlund, John Steele, Sue Van Inwegen, Leti Bocanegra, Tom Rigney, Carol Christensen, Steven Mintz, Melissa Mintz, Diana Hollander, Lilly Hollander, Larry Clark, Jim Bolton, Stephen Porter, Rolf Bell, and Alison Cocotis.
I am grateful to the many colleagues who generously provided copies of their publications and data: Pam Dalton, Jim Drobnick, Bob Frank, Hildegarde Heymann, Devon Hinton, David Hornung, Thomas Hummel, David Laing, Zachary F. Mainen, Florian Mayer, Yoshihito Niimura, Ann Noble, Tim Pearce, Timothy D. Smith, Eric Spangenberg, Dick Stevenson, Denise Tieman, Omer Van den Bergh, Bill Wood, Don Wright, Christina Zelano, Lorie Fulton, Debra Zellner, Joël Candau, John D’Auria, Claire Murphy, Bryan Raudenbush, Ralph Both, and Kirsten Sucker.
Finally, and most importantly, I thank my wife, Susanne, and our beautiful daughters, Alice and Lydia, for their patience and love and support.
Notes
Chapter 1. Odors in the Mind
“It is very obvious” Alexander Graham Bell, “Discovery and invention,” National Geographic, June 1914.
Some people aren’t daunted Michael Murphy, The Future of the Body: Explorations into the Further Evolution of Human Nature (Los Angeles: Jeremy P. Tarcher, Inc., 1992), p. 68; Vitus B. Dröscher, The Magic of the Senses: New Discoveries in Animal Perception (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1969), p. 100 (translation of 1966 German original); Andrew Hamilton, “What science is learning about smell,” Science Digest, November 1966, p. 81–84.
I began with a paper M. Milinski and C. Wedekind, “Evidence for MHC-correlated perfume preferences,” Behavioral Ecology 12 (2001): 140–49;B. C. Prasad and R. R. Reed, “Chemosensation: Molecular mechanisms in worms and mammals,” Trends in Genetics 15 (1999): 150–53; Trygg Engen,