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A foul-smelling cloud of gas escaped from a factory in northern France on Tuesday, making life unpleasant from the outskirts of Paris to Britain's shores and prompting scores of emergency calls.

A massive fish die-off in the Salton Sea is the prime suspect in a rotten smell that swept the region, but experts can't recall a bad odor ever traveling so far. When the rotten egg smell wafted into the Santa Clarita United Methodist Church in Saugus on Monday morning, Kathy Gray thought the church's sewer pipe had burst.

Men who sniffed such tears produced less testosterone and found female faces less arousing, according to new research.A woman's tears can be a total turnoff for a guy — if he smells them, that is.

A soak in a steamy tub, surrounded by candles sure seems like a great way to unwind. But new research suggests that burning certain kinds of candles may generate indoor air pollutants.

Kim Soon-ja says her freeze-dried pickled cabbage, which has the taste but not the odor many associate with the national dish, will appeal to foreigners and fussy Koreans.

As a connoisseur of kimchi, South Korea's national dish, Kim Soon-ja takes a package of the fermented cabbage everywhere -- even overseas.

The Food and Drug Administration says Zicam nasal spray can permanently damage users’ sense of smell.