Although it is agreed that physico-chemical features of molecules determine their perceived odor, the rules governing this relationship remain unknown. A significant obstacle to such understanding is the high dimensionality of features describing both percepts and molecules. We applied a statistical method to reduce dimensionality in both odor percepts and physico-chemical descriptors for a large set of molecules. We found that the primary axis of perception was odor pleasantness, and ...
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