A man who has a rare condition where he can smell words says he would never date a Kirsty because the name has a scent like urine. Henry Gray, 23, says he been able to taste, smell or have a feeling associated with words for as long as he can remember.
After his parents and teachers picked up on him commenting on the tastes for his classmate's names he discovered he had lexical-gustatory synaesthesia in 2009. Synaesthesia is a neurological condition that results in the joining or merging of senses that aren't normally connected.
Those affected can often taste or smell when hearing, speaking, reading or thinking about words. For Henry the name Boris Johnson tastes like 'squishing a hard-shelled beetle with his foot' and Harry Styles is like 'hair sticking up like telephone wires'.
