New Study Links Your Sense of Smell With Sexual Desire
The science of smell and sex
Your sense of smell is crazy.
When you ask people about their favorite smells, you get a wild variety of different responses. People say things like fresh coffee, baking cookies, gasoline, the airport, freshly cut grass, flowers, their partners, and people from whichever sex they’re attracted to.
When we close our eyes and just smell something we enjoy, a flood of memories washes over us, hijacking our brains and transporting us to another world.
The sense of smell, or olfaction, is by far the oldest of all the senses. We believe this to be true because almost every single creature alive today can smell stuff.
Smell helps animals, large and small, find food and avoid being eaten by predators. The sense of smell is so deeply rooted in organisms that when we are stressed or anxious, the whole world smells worse.
People experiencing stress and anxiety kick their immune systems into overdrive to try and smell a threat.
Everyone knows how a smell can unlock old, long-forgotten memories instantly, like a famous food recipe you’ve loved since childhood.
