QI | Do You Know Your Relatives' Smell?
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This clip is from QI Series K, Episode 16, 'Kaleidoscope' with Stephen Fry, Alan Davies, Susan Calman, Liza Tarbuck and Sandi Toksvig. 
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My Grandad always used the original Old Spice cologne that came in bottles shaped like trains and ships. He'd give me the empty bottles when I was little and I'd smell the inside because it reminded me of him. I miss that guy.
My father used to do that. It was the old Avon aftershave that my mom would buy him as a Christmas present and then give me the empty bottle. They were ships, antique cars, train engines. Wow! Nice memories!
Sorry for your loss, Tokyo Sexwhale
My grandparents smelled like a combination of nivea cream,old spice, cloves and some secret ingredients. It was the best and most soothing smell I have known in my life.
Awww, that's sweet.
For my grandparents it was Aqua Velva and Aqua Net combined with Folgers coffee. I'm now wondering why the word "aqua" was so popular for a while.
@@HermanVonPetri, IIRC, 'aqua' colognes and perfumes became popular in the late 80's and early 90's because at the time it was a newly discovered base with an 'outdoorsy' scent that matched well with previously established and popular scents. It was probably a lot cheaper than starting with an ethanol base as well.
I can only assume the fad of using 'aqua' in the name didn't last very long because everyone used them and clubs and pubs stank of them for days 😂
My nana smells like baby powder. I don’t know why.
My mother [ she would be 91] used to call cheap perfume "Lily of the Alley".
My mum always calls primark, Primarni
Oh, your mum has just started a new insult in my life 😂
Lilly of the alley 😂🤣😂🤣😂❤️
Brilliant! I love it!!!!
your mother, bless her soul, has just given me something to carry on
Hahahahaha, that's amazing!!
I once saw a show about pheromones where they had men jog on treadmills until their shirts were drenched in sweat, then jarred their shirts and had women rate the smell of each. It was a blind smell test and they snuck in some relatives. The women were consistently repulsed by their relative's body odor more than random strangers. They were also more likely to actually enjoy men's BO is they were ovulating.
I thought I dreamed up that show, so the fact that someone else saw it makes me feel so much better lol
It was on national geographic
It was Mythbusters,
Every house you enter other than you own has that distinct smell that you identify the place by.
Your own too. Just that your olfactory senses are used to it
Mammal mothers will often use smell to be certain they're feeding their own offspring and not some random one from the same herd.
3:30 This is the clip that spawned a Quibble from me to the QI Elves because I'm anosmic and a pedant. Anosmics ARE able to taste. People do use taste and flavor synonymously, but gustation (the sense of taste) is specific to the taste buds while flavor (the perception of taste) incorporates smell, temperature, texture, and pain simultaneously with gustation. Someone with acquired anosmia (developed later in life) will report decreased taste because they aren't used to perceiving flavor without smell, but a congenital anosmic (born without smell) will have no troubles with the taste of their food.
Me too (as I wrote above)! It is so good to read this silly old chestnut being put to rest.
Really interesting. Thank you for writing about it. Something new learned today 😊 👍
Equally, the 'decreased taste' described by a new anosmic could be the same level of taste as someone who could never taste but, to the new person, it reads as "less taste"
@@Tao_Tology I think you mean a new anosmic would have the same level of flavour as someone who could never smell since losing the sense of smell does not affect taste, it affects flavor. That was also the last sentence of my original comment.
Fresh sun-dried linens, lemons and, once in a while peanutbutter cookies.
3:34 That explains it, I have bad sinuses and can't smell much, I knew it couldn't be the fact that I'm fat, lazy, ugly and boring.
I thought it was just my destructive lifestyle,passiveness, weed addiction, lack of money and self image. Now I am double pleased my sense of smell is coming back, now I am more active, quit smoking weed and try not to bring myself down all the time and have a proactive attitude towards life;)
I have anosmia and now I'm wondering if that's why I've been divorced twice. I had a boyfriend who complained that he wanted to wear a nice smelling cologne, but then realized I wouldn't smell it anyway. He turned out to be a jerk, too. Maybe there's something to this. 🤔😕😳😥
@@rainydaylady6596 I would not worry about that to much. If he was right for you he would have helped you to understand and accepted your "shortcomings".
It's also just a theory that doesn't have real and constructive application to relationships or life.
In fairness, I know plenty of far, lazy, ugly and boring people who've got partners.
It's not necessarily an impediment, if you don't mind shacking up with someone equally fat, lazy, ugly and boring, as long as you've got some enthusiasm for it.
As this very show has made clear previously, the most beautiful people don't actually get approached the most. Most people just reckon "out of my league" and don't even try. So those who get the most interest on dating sites are the funny-looking ones. Attractive from a certain angle. An acquired and slightly quirky taste. Everyone's going for them, as they reckon no-one else is (ironically enough).
The open secret of happiness - low expectations and just be enthusiastic about it all. She's a decent enough lass, ain't she? Nothing wrong with settling.
@@klaxoncow I second that!
Why isn't this on the Stephen Fry mashup of his accents?! So good!!!
My grandmother always smelled of Emeraude.. a perfume. She passed in 1980 and was born in 1883. They were wealthy people until the depression hit. Most of their wealth was decimated. She remained elegant until the end, always a dress, nylons, heels, and jewelry. Her long hair was a light silver with blonde still showing at 97, always done in a french twist or a bun. She sat in her chair like a queen, and said things like "GAD!!" and "Mercy!!" when we did naughty things or when Edith from the Archie Bunker show sang, (her favorite tv show). 🤣 we all lived in her large home and were blessed to have her for so long. We had a magical childhood, and she was a published poet and avid reader.
Published poet? May I know who she was?
@@I.amthatrealJuan she was a part of a literary society in Wisconsin and Michigan. They published one book, it sold about 10,000 copies back in the 1970`s and she had three of her works chosen for it. Unfortunately there is nothing online as I have searched for it. Her author name was A.E.Jensen-Hull. Sorry, she was a regional poet and they only ran the first printing and no further ones. But thanks for your interest Juan.
Does anyone else experience anxiety at the end of the new videos when Sandy is doing her thing? I always feel like she's judging me and scroll through everything very quickly just to find something before she says "Well please, come on, pick something!"
Omg yes....hadn’t realised that till I read your comment.
Yes; very judgy .. very. Sometimes there's nothing new in the four boxes and I quickly click over.
Every time I see a picture of an oldie my mind comes up with something smelling smokey and earthy. Must be an constructed association
My grandmother, and her entire house, always smelled of Damask Rose - and so did I when I stayed with her because she only ever bought that soap, bubble bath, face cream etc. You could smell her coming from halfway down the High Street... :-) :-)
Grandma smells like Grandma. Can't explain it any other way
Imagine if the QI team were in charge of covid Management? We would have been back to normal months ago.
Only if "dead" were considered to be "normal." (They quite often get things wrong, bless 'em.)
@@michaeljohnangel6359 QI: Hit rate 80+% correct; UK: Tory Govt Covid hit rate ~150,000 dead and heading for an Omicron Christmas.
lol "back to normal" because the shit we're going through now is totally normal...
@@iamdb1990 Yeah bro, I sincerely apologize for not knowing what the world would be like almost 2 years after making a comment on RUclips. Shame on me for not knowing what the future would bring.
It's funny watching this old clip, before everybody knew what "anosmic" meant!
Yes, of late that word has become more and more... on the nose, shall we say?
Regular QI viewers already knew the meaning of anosmic because it had been covered before on the show. That's why Stephen specifically asked Alan about it, to see if he remembered.
I'm anosmic AND live up to Stephen's hypothesis, but I don't think it's my nose that's the problem.
Ya, allergies, that's the reason I'm not a gigolo (I've thought for ages that it's because I can't smell how bad I stink, then girls will hide the fact they probably want to heave at me, but they're either polite or a mean birch about it
It's looking into the past, but also looking at the future.
My dad used to wear Old Spice.
Sigh. Now I miss my dad. 😔
Wish I had something useful to say to make you feel a bit better. I don't, I'm sorry. But it did occur to me that if you miss him, then you must have been close to him, which means he was a good dad. So even though you miss him now he's gone, I'm glad that you had the time with him that you did, and that he was a good father to you. Positive vibes from an internet stranger, straight to you.
@@al201103 it's good to know that the world contains people (or at least 1 person) who can be bothered to type out a reasonably lengthy burst of niceness. I hope the world is good to you in return.
@@geoffsecombe Right back at you Geoff :)
What Stephen and Liza talk about is true in a sense, anyone you're not "geneticly compatible" for lack of a better word due to an shared hereditary condition which would result in a increased chance to manifest in your offspring would smell somewhat off-puting to you.
My mother, who passed 10 years ago, always smelled like White Diamonds perfume, with a soupçon of Lancers rosè.
I was 13 before I realised the smell of gin and tonic was not an aftershave.
The title of this video is a *really* good example of the difference that an apostrophe can make. With the apostrophe, it's "Do you know the smell of your relatives?" - a Quite Interesting question about recognizing people by their aroma. Without the apostrophe, it's "Do you know that your relatives smell?" - a question that's more likely to earn you a punch on the nose. Truly, apostrophes are Quite Important :)
The second could be either "Do you know that your relatives are not anosmic?" or ""Do you know that your relatives have an odour?". Then again, either of those questions would likely earn you a broken nose. (I wouldn't mind a punch. In a glass or bowl though, not on the nose.)
It’s totally different words, not an apostrophe 🙄
@@jonbateman3245
"Do you know your relatives smell?"
"Do you know your relative's smell?"
"Do you know your relatives' smell?"
The only difference between those 3 lines is the position or absence of an apostrophe, yielding 3 different meanings.
It's a bit like the classic example of the importance of a single comma: "Eats shoots and leaves" (i.e. some kind of herbivore) vs. "Eats, shoots and leaves" (i.e. after-dinner murder)
My great grandmother had a particular scent and after she passed I have only been able to find her scent at a craft fair on a candle.
my mother never did wear much perfume but she would use Johnson's baby lotion after every shower/bath. It's a nice smell.
I'm anosmic. I didn't know there was a word for being without an olfactory sense until now.
Ah yes, I remember the strong smell of petrol of my grandpa... he shouldn't have smoked that cigar.
Fun fact, cigarettes and cigars don't burn hot enough to ignite petrol/gasoline. That's a hollywood myth
He liked to light them with a flamethrower.
@@Wecoc1 Oh, well that'll do it.
You're a stand up duo ... aren't you?
Yes I do know they smell!
The last statement holds true for me. I have a very poor sense of smell and an even poorer love life.
2020 the year everybody knew the word anosmia
I didn’t know it in 2020 😬
@@CJT3X were you living under a rock?
I learned that word from Scrubs years ago thank you very much!
You can't stop the video there! You could tell more good stuff was coming.
nobody should use the word anosmia unless they know the other one as well
Old Spice and shaving soap. Wilson's for my Dad & Grandfathers.
So unless I understood this wrong: the pheromones of for instance your sister will never entice you because your brain is hardwired to not like those pheromones?
My Chinese grandmother smelled of mothballs.
Mine smelled like soap because they obsessively washed their hands, but then the skin around their fingers would crack from dryness and they'd use medicinal bandages to prevent the cracks from getting bigger. So soap and herbs.
Mine smelled of oldmanballs
2:51 that look :))))). Shes so cute.
My grandparents all smelled like cigarettes, but I could identify them by the brand. Maternal grandmother, Virginia Slims. Paternal Grandfather, Marlboro.
My mother years ago when she smoked...Craven Menthol. My father when he quit cigarettes...cherry pipe tobacco. Loved the smell of good pipe tobacco.
@@GaslightingIsEvil A certain smell can most certainly trigger a memory...both good and bad. It's very powerful. I think of these certain smells as a link to the past and life.
Blue Stratos...what ever happened to that..or Denim.
I can't smell, but I can certainly taste things, though perhaps not as strongly as others. I can tell you that I can taste apples, for instance and that I prefer Honeycrisp to Fuji.
I sure hope you are not using that to determine whom are you going to mate with.
Smell is only 80% of taste so this makes 100% sense?
Me, too! I mean being able to taste, but I can only smell things that are hot. Like I can smell spaghetti sauce and fried chicken, but not perfume or other odors.
I know I don't like onions, but garlic is good. Lol
I can't smell anything at all, and I have been that way all my life, but I can taste and distinguish different foods despite
hearing a lot of people saying I shoudn't be able to. I think smell is is a big part of what composes tast but not everything, if it were this way all food would taste the same except for the obvious flavors like sweet, bitter and so on you can detect with your tongue.
I'm the same: I can't smell, but I can certainly taste foods. QI is great, a real treat, but they often get things wrong.
Why does the music at the end remind me of the Sims?
I once read something that said that lesbians can detect each others pheromones, and they will become friends.
Monarch butterfly
My grandad smelled of old spice, my dad smells of nivea for men and tobacco smoke, my granny smells of rosewater and my mum smells of chanel no 5 and oil of olay face cream. My sibling smells powdery.
so having lost their sense of smell due to COVID-19, people having had it will lead to more inbreeding?
It might counteract the quarantine-baby-boom.
My first answer: lavender
I know what Great Grandpa smells like.
I mean, I can guess, considering how long he's been in that coffin....
That's Gold⭐
A bit moldy, right?? 😄😄😄
my grandpa smelled of winstons and aftershave for a full 20 years after he last had a smoke or a shave
You say shagging doesn't exclusively take place in the dark, but for much of the mammalian history we were all burrowers. That's why our eyes are so shite compared to other orders, we came out of the ground colorblind.
Ah, the well known ancestral mole ape, of course.
@@babboon5764 well, long before apes. Primates are actually special in that we have three cones, while most mammals just have two. It's believed to be a foraging adaptation: is easier to find red fruit among green leaves if you are not red-green colorblind.
Most (living) dinosaurs, in contrast, have four cones, and can see well intro ultraviolet.
@@davidgustavsson4000 Cone based vision requires realtively intense light.
If we evolved underground we'd have big whiskers, lots of rods & reflective corneas.
@@babboon5764 HUMANS didn't evolve underground, but early mammals did, and lots of mammals do still have those traits, including some primates. The ones we're more directly descended from obviously weren't subterranean, despite the species name of one of our closest relatives being Troglodytes (meaning cave dweller, which is not accurate because chimps don't live in caves). Like some other mammals, our eyesight improved for day vision, but that's not what the original comment was about.
Mammals as a Class have indeed spent a lot of time underground for the past few hundred million years. Mammals were probably primarily underground burrowers for longer (300mya) than any have been primarily above ground or tree dwellers (80mya), which was after all, the point of the original comment.
I don't think you're paying attention to what you're disagreeing with.
@@jessicalee333
Possibly my biggest deficit was not paying attention to what I was thinking and typing -
I meant If we evolved underground we'd have big whiskers, lots of rods & reflective *Retinas* (not corneas .... If we had reflective corneas we'd see nowt much at all).
There are a fair numbers of wires getting crossed here.
David G's point seemed to be that the earliest proto-mammals were burrowers.
Well you can lump cynodonts into that and many of them weren't burrowers.
Then you get closer to modern mammals, and sure, many were if not burrowers at least mainly nocturnal insectivores.
On the other hand, some were day active and seemingly hunted small dinosaurs.
But you're going back *hundreds* of *millions* of years here.
By that logic why not push the line a bit further and contend we should all be aquatic because the line traces back to fish?
As for Chimps - which we didn't evolve from anyway BTW (tho we share a common ancestor) - Well, they're pretty bright and might nip into a cave to get out of the rain but unlike our forebears weren't 'cavemen'.
And then even though lots of hominids & true humans *did* live in caves, we actually have eyes which are very well adapted for our *daylight* - not a dark burrow - environment.
I couldn’t describe the smell but I definitely recognise how my family members smell. Me, my mum, and my dad all smell virtually the same, my maternal grandparents smell the same and my paternal grandparents smell the same. I live in New Zealand and my grandparents live in the UK so growing up they would send me a lot of packages and whenever I opened them it would always smell like them and their houses. It was nice being able to smell them, it made them feel closer.
Hai karate in America.
I will not get the
Oddly enough my maternal grandfather smelled of mothballs. He liked the smell of mothballs and would put them in his pocket.
old spice
Miss my dad's smell, his was a oil he put in his hair. My mother smells like ashtrays and alcohol. My aunt often smells of hairspray. My grandfather had a peppermint aftershave. My great grandma had a smell of Rose's. I have a cousin that smells of cheese, (yuck). my brother smells of campfire and oak. How do I know my own smell?
I lost my sence of Smell and Taste 5 yrs ago, now my poor hubby has to try my food before I eat it because I can't tell if its sour or strange. And I'd loovvee a strong hot coffee in the morning just one more to really enjoy, but here's the funny🤭
If I have gas I ask him if it smells? He usually dies of embarrassment but if ya can't ask a rating after nearly 10yrs when can you? 🤗I just like to know, maybe 1 more too😤
Wow a coffee and a fart,
What a simple girl am I 😲
Sense.
Was that smelling of 'mints' or 'mince'?
Mints. I think.
As someone with near enough no sense of smell....
Given that 99% of my relatives are dead now, I really don't wanna know what they smell like... 😵💫
Do you know that Apostrophes are important?
My house smells exactly like my nans house. My aunties sweat stinks so much you wanna puke, can't smell what my kids smell like buy I'm probably used too it. Met woman who's natural smell us alluring and some that smell like you'd drown yourself just to get get away.
I love how Stephen at the end says, “Men who have no sense of smell get less... get fewer...”. He has corrected others on the use of fewer versus less before. One day less will simply be a part of common use. As, clearly, even super intelligent people want to say it.
Fewer... sexual partners.
So if someone on a date smells like home then leave
Isn't it so you don't eat your own offspring?
Everyone who lost their sense of smell due to covid watching this like ಠ_ಠ 𝐟𝐞𝐰𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐱 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐬?
So what explains my huge nose next level scent not getting any?
That Scottish lazer beam has a massive wide on for the host...
I enjoy QI a lot, but they get tonnes of things wrong. I'm anosmic and yet can taste my food very well. In one of the programmes, there was a disagreement between the "gnomes" and Victoria Coren on probabilities in poker. The QI answer was said on the programme to have won the argument, but Victoria Coren is a world-class poker player who has won millions of pounds at poker, over the years. I wonder how many millions the gnomes have won. I am an art historian, and the art-history answers given on QI are often incorrect. Perhaps the gnomes use Wikipedia as their source ….
My Nan smelt of TCP
Now I wonder how the Transport Control Protocol smells. And Internet Protocol for the full TCP/IP smell.
I thought it was something to do with lactating hairy nipples. Complete that punchline on your own time.
I remember my dad you to smell of brylcreme
Well please come on, I can smell you are too closely related.
First
I hate the bs most republicans post regarding the joke I am going to present, but it seemed too funny:
Joe Biden knows his family, friends (and even neighbors) by smell!.
... this video stinks.