Humans possess a remarkably acute sense of smell comparable to other mammals.

“humans have an utterly remarkable sense of smell”

Olfaction consists of both orthonasal sniffing and retronasal pathways, with the latter being a significant component of how we perceive flavor.

“every time you have food in your mouth all the every time you're chewing every time you're swallowing you get these little puffs of sort of scented air that go up the back of your throat and into your nose and uh those volatile molecules can bind with your olfactory receptor”