Residents near a Hastings industrial area say the rotten meat, egg, and sulphur-like smell of a nearby tannery became so bad during the summer that it clung.
Rotorua’ s lakefront has been blanketed by rotting lake weed, with one passerby calling the odour “rancid”. Recent stormy weather has washed ashore swathes.
The catalyst for the decision-making is the odour which travels up the nose sending neural signals to the olfactory bulb and the hippocampus. The two organs are closely connected. The information is swiftly processed and the brain makes a decision based on the input.
An Air New Zealand flight forced to divert to the Pacific island of Guam on Friday because of an “unidentified odour” in the cabin has returned safely to New.