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Mostly smell wearing taste's name tag; your tongue only does five notes.
means The distinct taste-and-smell character of a food or drink — and by extension, the particular style or quality of anything, like a city or an experience.
from From Old French 'flaour' (smell, odor), which came from Latin roots tied to 'flagrare' (to blow) — the sense drifted through 'a pleasant smell' before settling on 'taste' in English. The spelling picked up an extra 'v' along the way, possibly nudged by association with 'savour,' its dinner-table cousin.
- tongue's real job
- only detects sweet salty sour bitter umami
- nose does rest
- aroma molecules hit smell receptors via the throat
- blocked nose
- colds kill flavour by blocking retronasal smell, not taste
- spicy isn't taste
- capsaicin triggers pain receptors, not flavour receptors