住宅内の臭気環境及び居住者の臭気に対する意識の実態  [in Japanese] A QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY ON ODOR ENVIRONMENT IN HOUSES AND ODOR CONSCIOUSNESS OF RESIDENTS  [in Japanese]

A questionnaire was conducted on the odor environment in residential houses and the sensitivity of the residents to some specific odors. The following results were obtained to provide basic data for the odor control (in residential houses). The largest number of the respondents answer they take the odor of the cigarette smoking as the worst odor and want to eliminate it first. The second worst is the odor of garbage. To control'the malodor, most of the house wives ventilate the room. Some (of them) use aromatics in toilets or at the entrance. On the whole, women are more sensitive to odors than men, and young women (in their twenties) are the most sensitive.