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Currently it is believed that an average human can distinguish between an astonishing 10,000 distinct scents. Yet those same 10,000 fragrances cause completely different experiences and reactions from person to person, and can be different for the same person based on that person’s emotional level.
Our olfactory receptors that send electrical signals to the brain are connected to the limbic system, the most primordial and primitive part of the brain, which is associated with emotions and memory, linking our experience and overall sensation of a smell to our most basic personal emotional core.
Studies tend to show a connection between exposure to pleasant fragrances and positive emotional change. For instance, a person who is exposed to a pleasant fragrance will have an elevated mood, as opposed to those who were exposed to a placebo.
In addition it is more likely that people who are exposed to pleasant scents will be deemed attractive by other people than people exposed to scents that were considered to be unpleasant. This is a result of the affect that the scent had on the person’s mood rather than the affect on the people surrounding that person.
Some psychology experiments have even suggested that the real value of perfume might be to affect the mood of the wearer rather than the attraction it has for the opposite sex.
The Smell of Humans
It is a known fact that each of us emits our own unique smell (unless we have an identical twin) and in most cases we don’t even notice it since we become accustomed to it.
In fact our body smell reflects our physiological state and inner metabolism, our diet, our gender, reproductive phase, and our health. In some cases certain types of diseases can make us produce smells characteristic of that disease. For example, people with liver disease can have a fishy smell on their breath.
Even though most humans usually don’t notice, scents can affect our mood and in turn affect the smells we release. Yet compared to some animals our detection levels are substantially low.
Research has shown that the sense of olfaction is stronger in women than in men.
It reaches its peak around the time of ovulation and at this time it is significantly stronger than during other phases of the menstrual cycle.
There is a gene family (called the Major Histocompatibility Complex – MHC) which is found in most vertebrates that plays an important role in the immune system and in the selection of mates. This group of genes generates molecules that can be detected by the sense of smell.
Research has indicated that we tend to select mates with different MHC genes, thereby ensuring a healthier breeding pattern.
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