title: Le Nez du Vin--a quick test of olfaction.
abstract: There is a need for a quick and inexpensive smell identification test. A six odour multiple choice smell test derived from Le Nez du Vin, a winetaster's kit, is described. One hundred and thirty-two subjects assessed a mean of 5.28 +/- 1.18 odours correctly. There was a significant difference between those who considered themselves to have a normal sense of smell (n = 91), mean score 5.52 +/- 0.76, and those who thought themselves hyposmic (n = 41), mean score 4.76 +/- 1.68. (P < 0.001). No significant differences could be detected between the scores of smokers and non-smokers, nor those of males and females. Twenty-one patients performed both the Nez du Vin and University of Pennsylvania Smell Identification Test (UPSIT) in random order. Results of the two tests showed good correlation (r = 0.79, P < 0.001).
authors.affiliation: Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital NHS Trust, London, UK.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: McMahon
authors.forename: G K
authors.initials: GK
authors.lastname: Scadding
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009666:Nose / Q000502:physiology*; D012903:Smell / Q000502:physiology*