World Scene: Japan

Site traces smells online

Japanese are taking their noses global with a website that describes different odors around the world and pinpoints where they can be found on a map.

Launched in December, the 'Nioi-bu', or Smell Club, has registered more than 160 scents around the world, ranging from "steam coming out of a rice cooker" to "used socks in the summer", and pinpointed their locations on a Google map.