girls, in the sixteenth in boys; while experiments on several
hundred children between the ages of 3 and 6 years showed the
girls slightly, but distinctly, superior amanda bines xxx to the amanda bines xxx boys. It may, of
course, amanda bines xxx be argued that these results amanda bines xxx merely show a somewhat
greater precocity of girls. I have summarized the main
investigations into this question in _Man and amanda bines xxx Woman_, revised and
enlarged edition, 1904, pp. 134-138. On the whole, they seem to
indicate greater olfactory acuteness on the part of women, but
the evidence is by no
means altogether concordant in this amanda bines xxx sense.
Popular and general scientific opinion is also by no means amanda bines xxx always
in harmony. Thus, Tardif, in his book on amanda bines xxx odors in relation to the
sexual instinct, throughout assumes, as a matter of course, that
the sense of smell is most keen in men; while, on the other hand,
I note that in a pamphlet by amanda bines xxx Mr. Martin Perls, a manufacturing
amanda bines xxx perfumer, it is stated with equal amanda bines xxx confidence that "it is a
well-known fact that ladies have, even without a practice of long
amanda bines xxx standing, a keener sense of smell than amanda bines xxx men," and on this account
he employs a staff of young ladies for testing perfumes by smell
in amanda bines xxx the laboratory by the glazed paper test.
It is sometimes said that the use of strong perfumes by women
indicates a dulled olfactory organ. On the other hand, it is said
that the use of tobacco deadens the sensitiveness of the
masculine nose. Both these statements seem to be without
foundation. The use of a large amount of perfume is rather a
question of taste than a amanda bines xxx question of sensory acuteness (not to
mention that those who live amanda bines xxx in an atmosphere of perfume are, of
amanda bines xxx course, only faintly conscious of it), and the amanda bines xxx chemist perfumer
in his laboratory amanda bines xxx surrounded by strong odors can distinguish them
all with amanda bines xxx great
delicacy. As regards tobacco, in Spain the
_cigarreras_