Does Our Choiсe Depend On Nostrils?
There is a great amount of women, for which a perfume is not only a pleasant accessories with fashionable aroma. Having chosen their scent once and forever, they turn it into a part of their image and style. However, if some major changes appear in your life, your style changes as well.
Suppose, you are standing at the door of a perfume shop and you seek to choose something new, unusual, an aroma, which is absolutely different from what you had been using before. So, in the is case you should better follow the advice, that the scientists of the University of California give. First of all you should not be in a hurry. First smell the scent with your right nostril, than, when some minutes have passed, do not forget to smell it with your left nostril. It may well occur, that the scent you loved at first will not satisfy you after the first smell, the question is – why?
After a long period of research scientists have come to a conclusion: scents, that come through the right nostril, seem much more pleasant for us, than those, that we perceive through the left one. It seems to be explained by the fact, that each nostril then passes the information got through it to its own part of our brain. The right part of our brain is responsible for emotions, and it is not prone to detailing information. The left one, on the contrary, is in charge of specifying scents, that is why it is so particular about them. So, it appears, that we like or detest an aroma in accordance to the nostril we perceive it with. What we do not like today may become adorable tomorrow – and vice versa.
Scent of gasoline in a perfume?!
The British supermodel Kate Moss says, that the scent of gasoline inspired her creation of a new scent.
According to the model’s words, it is her little daughter Lila Grace, that loves the scent of gasoline most of all. That is why mother Moss has decided to use it in her new perfume. Kate also believes, that many other people beside her daughter adore the smell of gasoline.
Suddenly it appeared, that the smell of gasoline appeals not only to Kate Moss, but to many other internet users, who were questioned about it. The questionnaire “Do you like the scent of gasoline?” had the following responces:
- I adore it since my childhood, it seems so pleasant and attractive for me! I do not know exactly, what I like about it, but it arouses a number of positive emotions. That is why I like gasoline stations – because of the smell.
- Oh, I love this smell! It is associated with open windows – either of a flat or of a car, with roads and sunsets when you travel, with a city and the sound of cars, or with a stop somewhere on a highway, when you sit in your car, look at the horizon and drink some cold Cola…
- This is a very male scent, certainly. And it arouses so many memories! You remember your old garage, and daddy working there and washing his hands with gasoline to get rid of oil spots on the hands…or you remember the first motorcycle you used to ride when you were a teenager…speed, warm metal and asphalt – all combined in this scent.
It seems to us, that the new scent by Kate Moss is, judging by these commentaries, doomed to enjoy immense success, once it is released. And what do you think?
Women and perfumes: what unites them
When Marilyn Monroe was asked, what she wears for the night, she answered: “Chanel number 5”. It is hardly possible to imagine a man giving such an answer: “No, I wear nothing, just a few drops of eau de cologne…” Probably, not eau de cologne, but a proper eau de toilette, but still – one can not compare the role, perfume plays in the life of a woman with that in the life of a man.
Women choose perfumes carefully and thoughtfully. A woman can change her scent preferences according to the place she is in and according to the time of the day, she takes her age and mood into consideration and makes experiments with perfumes, she discusses perfumes with friends and spends a huge part of her incomes on perfume, she can even give up a meal or a dress for her to buy a bottle of perfume.
Women have perfumes for both working days and holidays. A woman wears different scents for business meetings and romantic dates, for a walk around the city and for a visit to a restaurant. However, in the 17th century Baltsasar Grassian warned women: “Who smell strongly – smells badly”. Still, modern day women seem to have learned the lesson of how to apply perfume: with the tips of your fingers, on the back of the hand, behind the ears, a touch at the back of the head and on the temples. This is enough to create an airy wave of a touching, magical aroma. This is not by chance, that an extremely popular film, that was filmed twice (starring Vittorio Gassman and Al Pachino correspondingly) was named “Scent of a woman”. Certainly it couldn’t be the scent of a man – the scent of tobacco, leather and alcohol.
Does our private life depend on our noses?
It is usually thought, that a man’s smell is his sweat smell. However our true aroma is made up in special glands, located in armpits, around the nipples, on the head, around the eyes and so on. (In the brightest minutes of love a desired and loving woman has the smell of musk). Scientists believe, that each man has a unique aroma – a blend of scents that is predetermined genetically by the type of skin, hair colour, temperament and even eating habits. By this unique smell we distinguish familiar people and evaluate those, whom we see for the first time. It is this cocktail, that plays such a big role in choosing a partner.
An impulse sent to the brain from our nose is faster, than a pain impulse. Women get nearly mad because of the smell of those men, which DNA set is different from their own – and vice versa. Unwillingly men become aroused because of the influence of some special hormonal substances, called exaltides, that are produced in the female endocrine glands. However, in many cases both genders can’t come to a consensus, and the reason of it is…acute sense of smell of one of the partners.
Usually this is the sign of a hysteric and neurasthenic. A man with such a diagnosis can differentiate blonds (only natural blonds, of course) from brunettes without even looking at the girls – only smelling them! To their taste, blonds “smell”, but brunettes “stink”. That is why the men with acute sense of smell can show their masculine qualities only with the blonds, and a complete fiasco is waiting for them, if they appear to be in bed with a blond. The tasters usually have problems in private life due to this acute sense of smell, that is indispensable in their profession.