Scent and Sex – Part II
| by Luke Vorstermans | October 17, 2007
By Luke Vorstermans
More fascinating facts, folklore and customs on the vital role our sense of smell plays in our sexuality.
Eating sweeter foods will make you smell sweeter and more appealing to the opposite sex. And what you eat also affects the scent of your genitals and the taste of sperm – making sex all the more appealing.
Using a brain imaging technique, Swedish researchers have shown that homosexual and heterosexual men respond differently to two odors that may be involved in sexual arousal, and that the gay men respond in the same way as women.
Folklore says that the basil plant oil was used by younger Italian women to charm and bewitch potential lovers.
Pleasant fragrances on post-menopausal women have been shown to have a beneficial effect on their emotional well-being. Feeling good about one’s sexuality despite any physical changes in turn may make them more attractive to their partners.
The scent of a good meal can create sexual feelings. Men seem to be turned on by the scents of lavender and pumpkin pie, while women are turned on by cucumbers and certain candies. Vanilla is the scent that causes men and women to go ga-ga for each other. The scent of vanilla liqueur and vanilla perfumes can drive both sexes wild.
Nostalgia can create a strong connection between scent and sexual response. If your partner wears the same cologne or perfume that he or she did when you first began to date, it will remind you of how you felt for each other in the beginning.
Adding scents to sex can change the overall experience. Burning scented candles with exotic fragrances and oils can impact mood and receptivity. By blindfolding a partner and having them smell different fruits, candles, incense, etc, you can create a more intense orgasmic response.
The reason why men and women respond so strongly to the scent of the opposite sex is because that is generally considered to be a sign of attractiveness as well as fertility. Men and women that smell good are subconsciously thought of as more sexual.
Musk is a potent scent that can increase sexual response in both men and women. It recalls the scent of sweat and unwashed bodies … but without the stink.
Both men and women have reported more intense orgasms when they've worn a favorite cologne or perfume. It helps them relax and feel attractive, which then allows their partner to feel attractive to them.
Tests have shown that both men and women are able to recognize their spouses by scent. In one well-known experiment, women and men were able to distinguish t-shirts worn by their marriage partners, from among dozens of others, by scent alone.
Even if you aren't with someone that wears a scent that you particularly like their body chemistry and natural pheromones can cause it to be appealing sexually. This means that if your partner's body chemicals don't work well with a favorite scent, you might not like that cologne or perfume.
The neurons in our nose that allow us to smell regenerate throughout our lifetime. Although these cells are continually dying, they maintain the same connections as their ancestors. The result is that once we learn a smell, it always smells the same – despite the fact that there are always new neurons smelling it!
In India, the traditional affectionate greeting – equivalent to a hug or kiss – is to smell the person’s head. An ancient Indian text declares, “I will smell thee on the head, that is the greatest sign of tender love.”
Humans have the ability to smell over 10,000 distinct and different scents. Of course, animals are much better at this than us and use scent for attraction.
Certain aromatic plants exude oils similar to our own sexual secretions or pheromones. Wearing cinnamon and vanilla blends increases the presence of pheromone-like substances and dramatically increases attraction.
No two people smell the same scent the same way. This just might mean that there is one person (and one smell) for everyone – a smell mate instead of a soul mate?
When you smell something favorable (or not), that message is sent directly to the limbic system that control feelings of sexual pleasure and happiness. Anything you smell directly affects your levels of arousal because of this instant messaging system.
If genital odors are a turn-off when making love, keep some of your saliva in your mouth and breathe through your mouth. This reduces your sense of smell. Disagreeable odors are also much easier to tolerate when people are aroused.
The scent of a woman? Women, according to a recent study, are attracted to a black licorice scent.
People can recall smells with 65% accuracy after a year, while the visual recall is only about 50% after just three months. This is why the feeling of a lover can linger, even if you can not remember what they looked like.
Our sense of smell plateaus at around the age of eight and begins to slowly decline as early as our twenties, which seems to make sense, given our genetic tendency to want to reproduce around that age. Our sense of smell needs to be at or around its peak to find the perfect mate.
Wearing a pleasant perfume or cologne has been proven to increase your overall attractiveness to the opposite sex. Even those that were considered 'average' in terms of their looks have scored higher in tests when given a pleasing scent to wear.
A woman's sense of smell is 10,000 times stronger during ovulation, which allows her to find the perfect partner in order to reproduce – or at least, that's what the response was intended for.
The daily use of colognes or perfumes is also linked with lifting depression which can make you all the more attractive to the opposite sex. People report having higher spirits when they're wearing or smelling something pleasant, so they're happier and more fun to be with – and that is sexy.
Strong odors have a stimulating effect on the body, which results in increased blood flow to the penis as well as to the clitoris which heightens arousal.
Women's sensitivity to musk, an ingredient commonly used in perfumes, is 1000 times greater than men's. Sexy perfumes containing musk are therefore much more likely to arouse the woman wearing them than any potential male partners. But by making a woman feel more sensual, the perfume may affect her behavior and thus indirectly increase her attractiveness.
Please share this article with your friends, family and colleagues. Reprint rights granted. All reprints must include an active link to www.scentuellepatch.com. Content may not be altered and must be used as distributed The Orion Group Ltd. Copyright © The Orion Group, Ltd 2007
Author Bio:
Luke Vorstermans is the co-founder of The Sense of Smell Lab, a world leader in the development of innovative products that use our sense of smell to influence behavior, trigger memories, manage cravings, enhance moods and improve sexual health . To learn more about how to increase sexual desire visit http://www.scentuellepatch.com
More fascinating facts, folklore and customs on the vital role our sense of smell plays in our sexuality.
Eating sweeter foods will make you smell sweeter and more appealing to the opposite sex. And what you eat also affects the scent of your genitals and the taste of sperm – making sex all the more appealing.
Using a brain imaging technique, Swedish researchers have shown that homosexual and heterosexual men respond differently to two odors that may be involved in sexual arousal, and that the gay men respond in the same way as women.
Folklore says that the basil plant oil was used by younger Italian women to charm and bewitch potential lovers.
Pleasant fragrances on post-menopausal women have been shown to have a beneficial effect on their emotional well-being. Feeling good about one’s sexuality despite any physical changes in turn may make them more attractive to their partners.
The scent of a good meal can create sexual feelings. Men seem to be turned on by the scents of lavender and pumpkin pie, while women are turned on by cucumbers and certain candies. Vanilla is the scent that causes men and women to go ga-ga for each other. The scent of vanilla liqueur and vanilla perfumes can drive both sexes wild.
Nostalgia can create a strong connection between scent and sexual response. If your partner wears the same cologne or perfume that he or she did when you first began to date, it will remind you of how you felt for each other in the beginning.
Adding scents to sex can change the overall experience. Burning scented candles with exotic fragrances and oils can impact mood and receptivity. By blindfolding a partner and having them smell different fruits, candles, incense, etc, you can create a more intense orgasmic response.
The reason why men and women respond so strongly to the scent of the opposite sex is because that is generally considered to be a sign of attractiveness as well as fertility. Men and women that smell good are subconsciously thought of as more sexual.
Musk is a potent scent that can increase sexual response in both men and women. It recalls the scent of sweat and unwashed bodies … but without the stink.
Both men and women have reported more intense orgasms when they've worn a favorite cologne or perfume. It helps them relax and feel attractive, which then allows their partner to feel attractive to them.
Tests have shown that both men and women are able to recognize their spouses by scent. In one well-known experiment, women and men were able to distinguish t-shirts worn by their marriage partners, from among dozens of others, by scent alone.
Even if you aren't with someone that wears a scent that you particularly like their body chemistry and natural pheromones can cause it to be appealing sexually. This means that if your partner's body chemicals don't work well with a favorite scent, you might not like that cologne or perfume.
The neurons in our nose that allow us to smell regenerate throughout our lifetime. Although these cells are continually dying, they maintain the same connections as their ancestors. The result is that once we learn a smell, it always smells the same – despite the fact that there are always new neurons smelling it!
In India, the traditional affectionate greeting – equivalent to a hug or kiss – is to smell the person’s head. An ancient Indian text declares, “I will smell thee on the head, that is the greatest sign of tender love.”
Humans have the ability to smell over 10,000 distinct and different scents. Of course, animals are much better at this than us and use scent for attraction.
Certain aromatic plants exude oils similar to our own sexual secretions or pheromones. Wearing cinnamon and vanilla blends increases the presence of pheromone-like substances and dramatically increases attraction.
No two people smell the same scent the same way. This just might mean that there is one person (and one smell) for everyone – a smell mate instead of a soul mate?
When you smell something favorable (or not), that message is sent directly to the limbic system that control feelings of sexual pleasure and happiness. Anything you smell directly affects your levels of arousal because of this instant messaging system.
If genital odors are a turn-off when making love, keep some of your saliva in your mouth and breathe through your mouth. This reduces your sense of smell. Disagreeable odors are also much easier to tolerate when people are aroused.
The scent of a woman? Women, according to a recent study, are attracted to a black licorice scent.
People can recall smells with 65% accuracy after a year, while the visual recall is only about 50% after just three months. This is why the feeling of a lover can linger, even if you can not remember what they looked like.
Our sense of smell plateaus at around the age of eight and begins to slowly decline as early as our twenties, which seems to make sense, given our genetic tendency to want to reproduce around that age. Our sense of smell needs to be at or around its peak to find the perfect mate.
Wearing a pleasant perfume or cologne has been proven to increase your overall attractiveness to the opposite sex. Even those that were considered 'average' in terms of their looks have scored higher in tests when given a pleasing scent to wear.
A woman's sense of smell is 10,000 times stronger during ovulation, which allows her to find the perfect partner in order to reproduce – or at least, that's what the response was intended for.
The daily use of colognes or perfumes is also linked with lifting depression which can make you all the more attractive to the opposite sex. People report having higher spirits when they're wearing or smelling something pleasant, so they're happier and more fun to be with – and that is sexy.
Strong odors have a stimulating effect on the body, which results in increased blood flow to the penis as well as to the clitoris which heightens arousal.
Women's sensitivity to musk, an ingredient commonly used in perfumes, is 1000 times greater than men's. Sexy perfumes containing musk are therefore much more likely to arouse the woman wearing them than any potential male partners. But by making a woman feel more sensual, the perfume may affect her behavior and thus indirectly increase her attractiveness.
Please share this article with your friends, family and colleagues. Reprint rights granted. All reprints must include an active link to www.scentuellepatch.com. Content may not be altered and must be used as distributed The Orion Group Ltd. Copyright © The Orion Group, Ltd 2007
Author Bio:
Luke Vorstermans is the co-founder of The Sense of Smell Lab, a world leader in the development of innovative products that use our sense of smell to influence behavior, trigger memories, manage cravings, enhance moods and improve sexual health . To learn more about how to increase sexual desire visit http://www.scentuellepatch.com
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