Pheromone binding proteins (PBPs) in insects are one branch of multigene family of odorant binding proteins (OBPs) and play an important role in the recognition of sex pheromone.
And it represents a more natural stimulus for the mosquito: carbon dioxide, odorant smells, body temperature, the attraction to warmth, and the physical skin and the chemicals that are released from the skin.
And any given odorant, like this pizza, is made up of hundreds of different chemicals that you can smell, like the thymol of the oregano, the butyric acid of the cheese, and the acetylpyrazine of the crust.
Now, the process starts as I sniff molecules up into my nose. This means that for you to be able to smell something, the odorant must be volatile, or in a gaseous state to get sucked up into your nostrils.