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    If You Can’t Smell Him, Can You Love Him?

    by Ankur Paliwal Feb 14, 2018 3 minutes

    Most people do not know or even think that they communicate via smell as well as through words, tone, or body language. Photograph by Hans Neleman / Getty Images

    What are the ingredients of a good relationship? Trust? Communication? Compromise?

    How about a sense of smell? When researchers in the United Kingdom surveyed almost 500 people with anosmia (the loss of sense of smell), more than 50 percent of them reported feeling isolated, and blamed their relationship troubles on their affliction. “I

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