Wed, 12 Oct 2011

Category: Different ways to fragrance your home

Do you know?

Our first in a series of interesting facts about the human body and the way it reacts to scents.

Do you know that your nose has at least 350 different odorant receptor proteins? What in the world does that mean —well basically each protein detects smells in the air and identifies the scents. The brain then receives a message from the nose and throughout your life these are stored. Have you ever wondered why years later a certain smell can evoke such strong emotions - maybe it is a perfume which reminds you of a loved one, maybe a cooking smell that reminds you of shcool dinners or a scent which evokes happy memories of holidays taken as a child. We can identify more than 10,000 different smells!!

And as such all scents can affect our mind set, mood and emotions!! Just on a last note do you know that our little furry four legged friends have 125 to 220 million smell-sensitive receptors!! Beat that!

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