LE NEZ DU VIN - A QUICK TEST OF OLFACTION

There is a need for a quick and inexpensive smell identification test. A six odour multiple choice smell test derived from Le Net du Vin, a winetaster's kit, is described. One hundred and thirty-two subjects as sessed a mean of 5.28 +/- 1.18 odours correctly. There was a significa nt difference between those who considered themselves to have a normal sense of smell (n = 91), mean score 5.52 +/- 0.76, and those who thou ght 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 pa tients performed both the Net du Vin and University of Pennsylvania Sm ell Identification Test (UPSIT) in random order. Results of the two te sts showed good correlation (r = 0.79, P < 0.001).