**Wine taster’s nose insured for millions**
The nose of winemaker and taster Ilja Gort has been insured for $8 million, Lloyd’s of London said Tuesday. He made the move after hearing about a man who lost his sense of smell in a car accident.
Of the 30 or 40 in the world, there are three masters of the art. “I’m the best,” he says. His sense of smell is insured by Lloyd’s of London for $5 million (“two or three years’ salary”).
>That new car smell is a cocktail of dangerous volatile compounds that come from an assortment of chemicals contained a car’s materials. When these materials are first assembled into the car, they “off-gas” many of their compounds into the air which is kept in high concentrations inside the sealed cars.
reddit455 says
people just don’t know about the nose.
(Audi is not the only one)
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**Wine taster’s nose insured for millions**
The nose of winemaker and taster Ilja Gort has been insured for $8 million, Lloyd’s of London said Tuesday. He made the move after hearing about a man who lost his sense of smell in a car accident.
[https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna23697464](https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna23697464)
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**Meet Nasa’s ‘Chief Sniffer’ Who Smells Everything Before It Goes Into Space**
[https://www.travelandleisure.com/trip-ideas/space-astronomy/nothing-can-be-launched-into-space-until-someone-at-nasa-smells-it](https://www.travelandleisure.com/trip-ideas/space-astronomy/nothing-can-be-launched-into-space-until-someone-at-nasa-smells-it)
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**THE $5 MILLION NOSE**
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1988/11/30/the-5-million-nose/a3bc102a-bbe6-4607-a2ce-4dc945c94d57/](https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1988/11/30/the-5-million-nose/a3bc102a-bbe6-4607-a2ce-4dc945c94d57/)
Of the 30 or 40 in the world, there are three masters of the art. “I’m the best,” he says. His sense of smell is insured by Lloyd’s of London for $5 million (“two or three years’ salary”).
ZealousidealClub4119 says
It’s nice that the friendly scientists at Audi don’t want to offend our noses, but there’s a pretty important thing they fail to mention at all: [Carcinogens](https://interestingengineering.com/transportation/turns-out-that-the-new-car-smell-is-actually-a-cocktail-of-carcinogens).
>That new car smell is a cocktail of dangerous volatile compounds that come from an assortment of chemicals contained a car’s materials. When these materials are first assembled into the car, they “off-gas” many of their compounds into the air which is kept in high concentrations inside the sealed cars.