おはようございます。KANOです。今回はこちらの記事から。
バニラの香りは、文化圏などの差異なく世界中で愛されてるという話。
私も大好き！癒やし効果を一番感じる香料なので手持ち香水のベースにはほぼ入ってるし、バニラエッセンスをコーヒーや紅茶にたらして楽しんでます。
Notably
意味 特に (particularly, especially) （しばしば most と共に用いて事例を提示する）
Published in Current Biology, a new study looked at whether people’s senses of smell vary according to culture — and found that for the most part, most people like the same smells. Of these, vanilla ranked the best, followed by ethyl butyrate — a chemical that smells like peaches. Notably, the least appealing smell was that of sweaty feet.
https://theswaddle.com/new-research-finds-vanilla-as-the-most-universally-appealing-scent-across-cultures/
perception
意味 [U] （五感による） 知覚 (力); （音· 色の） 認知 [認識] (力)
“We wanted to examine if people around the world have the same smell perception and like the same types of odor, or whether this is something that is culturally learned,” said study author Artin Arshamian, a neuroscientist at the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden. “Traditionally it has been seen as cultural, but we can show that culture has very little to do with it.”
https://theswaddle.com/new-research-finds-vanilla-as-the-most-universally-appealing-scent-across-cultures/
文化や風習がそんなに影響しないんだ。アジアはサンダルウッド好き寄り、とか細かい増減はありそうだけど。
olfactory
意味 [[名]の前で][医] 嗅覚の.
The results of this new experiment give scientists reason to believe that our olfactory preferences may be an evolutionary development rather than a matter of cultural taste.
https://theswaddle.com/new-research-finds-vanilla-as-the-most-universally-appealing-scent-across-cultures/
なんだこの単語…factoryって付いてるから「香料研究会社の云々」かと思ったよ…危ないw
gravitate
意味 〈人が〉＜場所· 物などに＞ （自然に） 引き寄せられる, 関わりを持つようになる ＜toward (s), to＞
The study’s finding raises the question of why we’ve evolved to gravitate towards these smells in particular, and the brain activity associated with them. Researchers think that these innate intuitive senses of smell may have helped early humans survive, in terms of detecting what’s edible and what isn’t.
https://theswaddle.com/new-research-finds-vanilla-as-the-most-universally-appealing-scent-across-cultures/
innate
意味 〈能力· 資質などが〉生得的な, 生まれつき備わっている; 〈信条などが〉生来の, 生まれながらの
But the more interesting discovery is that people’s preference for vanilla is more or less innate. The participants involved in the research are as diverse as they come: indigenous communities who fish, farm, or are involved in hunting and gathering, in addition to city-dwellers. In other words, people with very little in common, and very little exposure to one another.
https://theswaddle.com/new-research-finds-vanilla-as-the-most-universally-appealing-scent-across-cultures/
何か、当たり前なんだけど、こういう調査ってちゃんとサンプルとってやってんだなぁ…いや当たり前なんだけどw
disparate
意味 (かたく)[通例[名]の前で]（質や種類が） まったく異なる; 本質的に相違する (要素からなる), 異種の.
“Since these groups live in such disparate odiferous environments, like a rainforest, coast, mountain and city, we capture many different types of ‘odor experiences,’” Arshamian added. Contrary to expectations, culture had very little to do with everyone’s most and least favorite smells: it accounted for only 6% of the variance in the findings.
https://theswaddle.com/new-research-finds-vanilla-as-the-most-universally-appealing-scent-across-cultures/
account for A
意味 (かたく)〈事· 物が〉A〈出来事· 状況〉の原因となる, A を説明する
Researchers note that previous studies on the subject failed to account for adequate cultural diversity. Where there are differences in perception, it is less due to culture and more due to individual or personal preference — in fact, this accounts for 54% of the variance in the findings. The remaining 40% could be attributed to the scent’s chemical composition.
https://theswaddle.com/new-research-finds-vanilla-as-the-most-universally-appealing-scent-across-cultures/
