In 2024, Julia Low’s team at RMIT sat 54 volunteers in a virtual reality reconstruction of the International Space Station and had them sniff vanilla, almond and lemon, and the two sweet smells came through noticeably stronger inside the simulated spacecraft than in a plain room

Fifty-four volunteers sniffed vanilla, almond and lemon inside a VR reconstruction of the ISS. The two sweet smells came through stronger in the simulated spacecraft — the opposite of what astronaut complaints about bland food would predict…

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1. SpaceDaily 8 Sep
   In 2024, Julia Low’s team at RMIT sat 54 volunteers in a virtual reality reconstruction of the International Space Station and had them sniff vanilla, almond and lemon, and the two sweet smells came through noticeably stronger inside the simulated spacecraft than in a plain room ↗