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Odors Smell Like Their Components: A Linear Framework for Predicting Olfactory Mixture Perception

2026-07-08

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Most smells, whether in food, perfume, or the environment, are complex mixtures of many odor molecules. A principled framework for modeling natural mixtures has been considered intractable because mixtures are widely assumed to generate nonlinear perceptual interactions that mirror nonlinear responses at the receptor and neural levels. We quantified perceptual interactions across 432 mixtures composed of 144 compo...

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Literature Corpus work: 5479b850-d88d-5c34-89f1-8be2628f7c1d
DOI: 10.64898/2026.07.03.736426

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