answersLogoWhite

0

Everything you smell is giving off molecules. Therefore, the perfume you are smelling is actually molecules in the air that are breaking off the person's skin or clothes. Molecules can travel relatively long distances in the air considering smell is a more "direct" sense (i.e., you have to be near something to smell it).

User Avatar

Wiki User

13y ago

What else can I help you with?

Related Questions

Why is it that you can smell perfume several meters away give reason?

Perfume evaporates, the perfume molecules diffuse through the air and reach your nose, enabling you to smell them.


Use diffusion to explain why you can smell the perfume of someone who is sitting several seats away from you in class.?

Diffusion is the moving of particles from an area of higher concentration to an area of lower concentration. The smell of perfume is strongest on the person's body, and diffuses outward to wherever the smell is weaker.


Why perfume can be smelt from a few meters away?

This happens because when the perfume is sprayed the gas is diffuese into the air


What do we call the process of smelling perfume several metres away?

The process of smelling perfume several meters away is called olfaction. Olfaction is the sense of smell, which allows us to detect and perceive scents in our environment.


How can you still smell perfume if some one is standing some meters away from you?

Because the molecules of the perfume diffuse easy in the atmosphere.


What are high notes when the smell of a perfume is being described?

Top or head notes in reference to the smell of a perfume is the initial smell of the perfume when applied. They form a person's initial impression of a perfume and thus are very important in the selling of the product.


What is the vision of perfume?

A perfume is appreciated by smell/odour, not vision.


Why you can smell the jasmine flower while you are sitting several meters away?

Jasmine flowers release volatile organic compounds into the air, which travel through the air and reach your nose, allowing you to smell the fragrance even when you are several meters away from the flower.


How do you sell smell?

perfume.


Does a cockroach have a perfume smell?

No.


What smell reminds people of their mother?

The perfume smell of the perfume their mothers wore usually reminds people of their mothers.


Why you can smell bacon from several meters away?

Because it is hot and fresh.