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Using electroencephalogram (EEG) technology, this paper focuses on (1) exploring the possibility of recognizing pleasantness induced by different concentrations of odors, (2) finding the EEG rhythm wave that is most suitable for the recognition of different odor concentrations, (3) analyzing recognition accuracies with concentration changes, and (4) selecting a suitable classifier for this classification task. To explore these issues, first, emotions induced by five different concentrations of rose or rotten odors are divided into five kinds of pleasantness by averaging subjective evaluation scores. Then, the power spectral density features of EEG signals and support vector machine (SVM) are used for classification tasks. Classification results on the EEG signals collected from 13 participants show that for pleasantness recognition induced by pleasant or disgusting odor concentrations, considerable average classification accuracies of 93.5% or 92.2% are obtained, respectively. 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