: Where do smells go when they go away?

Question

Do they literally just disappear or what happens to them

In: Chemistry

Answer 1

If you can smell it, it is in your nose. Smell is just small particles of whatever you are smelling that get in your nose and get detected by the receptor in it, when the smells goes away it means that there is not enough of it in your nose for you to perceive it. And yes this means that when you smell poo you have tiny bits of it inside your nose.