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The whiff of white could hide strong odours

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Complex mixtures of many odours tend to smell the same.

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  1. Weiss, T. et al. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1208110109 (2012).

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