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Avery Gilbert

Taking a scientific sniff at the culture of smell

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    Avery Gilbert, PhD, is an olfactory scientist and author. He writes about smell in all its wonderful weirdness. Gilbert’s most recent scientific papers are about the smell of cannabis.

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