Language of smell: Tracing some cross-cultural insights from past and present Chetan Sharma

odor terms for the strong and repulsive smells (Lee, 2015). A similar trend of greater differentiation for unpleasant smells was observed in Thai odor terms (Wnuk et al., 2020). This further infers that abstract odor terms may be primed by psychological effects triggered by abrupt unpleasant smells (Lee, 2015), but again depending upon the culture fewer abstract terms were provided for unpleasant smells by English speakers (Poulton, 2020). The deeply rooted fear of the invisible vis-à-vis...