Pheromones are the silent messengers of human connection. Though invisible, they weave a profound story of attraction, memory, and mood—an olfactory whisper that bypasses conscious thought and goes straight to the heart of human experience. I’ve always been drawn to this aspect of science behind human nature, and celebrate this powerful, yet mysterious element of […]
If you read the previous blog (read here), I briefly discussed how scent is stored in the memory system. The Unfiltered Power of Scent Because of the direct connection into the brain, smells are often encoded along with the emotional state you were in when you first experienced them. Scent bypasses conscious filtering. Therefore, scent […]
Hello, and welcome to the first blog of many. My intentions with these blogs are to give increment nuggets of information about scent and its purpose, and to also illustrate how scent plays an important role in lives, including mine. Scent is a peculiar concept. The science and stories of scent’s influence on who we […]