Can Scent Stir Your Libido. Does The Libido Scent Patch Work
Increase Libido. Increase Sex Drive. Can Scent Stir Your Libido
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Can scent stir your libido?
by: Dr. Trina Read , Calgary Herald
A few months back, a reporter asked my opinion about whether scent can really increase a woman’s libido.
I replied that using scent for romance and seduction is nothing new. In ancient Egypt and Rome, bathing with essential oils was part of the ritual in preparing for lovemaking.
Today, though, the perfume industry is a multibillion-dollar business, and the reporter’s question was prompted by the North American launch of a new product called Scentuelle, a small, transparent patch that’s placed on the wrist and sniffed by the wearer.
According to the company’s website (myscentuelle.com), the product “stimulates the libido by delivering a sensuous blend of aromas directly to the smell receptors in the brain. Smelling the aromatic patch frequently throughout the day encourages sexy thoughts and feelings.”
I’ve read enough hocus-pocus, rev-your-libido-with-our-love-potions advertisements to be immediately skeptical.
The Scentuelle website goes on: “Our nose merely acts as a vehicle for channelling the odours to the right place. This is to the smell receptors located on the edge of our brains at the top of the nose. These receptors go straight into our limbic system –the part of the brain that deals with feelings of happiness and pleasure, including our sex drive. So, in effect, our nose gives us a direct route into our pleasure centre.”
All right, this statement is true enough. Scent is the only sense out of the five that can bypass the rational brain. The limbic system is also in charge of your memory and emotions.
The relevance? You have a cache of scent memories powerful enough to pull you through a past event, eliciting the same emotional response. For example, the slightest whiff of patchouli oil instantly throws me back 20 years to a turbulent and extremely steamy university fling. The smell of Calvin Klein’s Eternity for Men coming off the warm skin of a man’s neck is enough to send my libido through the roof.
Where was I? Oh, yes, here are some things about smell we know are scientifically true, according to the website senseofsmell.org:
- No two people smell the same odour the same way.
- A person never experiences one smell the same way twice.
- Your ability to detect odours changes daily and depends on your physiological condition.
- You have the ability to distinguish 10,000 individual scents.
As far back as 1703, scientists were aware of an organ in the nasal cavity of mammals known as the vomeronasal organ. This organ, thought to be an evolutionary leftover in humans, is used to detect pheromones, those secret chemicals our bodies transmit to other members of our species.
For many years, scientists have been studying why scent, combined with pheromones, has the effect it does on human arousal. Neurologist Alan Hirsch studied the effects of 30 different scents on the state of arousal of 31 men (measured by their penile blood flow). Although all the scents produced some level of arousal, the winner was a combination of lavender and pumpkin pie, producing a 40 percent increase in arousal.
Hirsch found women preferred baby powder and a combination of Good and Plenty licorice candy with cucumber.
Hirsch proved even though scent is intangible it does have a real effect on your state of arousal.
Where the libido line gets fuzzy is when a couple has been going through tough sexual times. Smelling something, even if it is highly arousing, isn’t going to turn that couple’s sexual experience around any time soon.
On the flip side, I am forever pontificating that in our go-go-go society, we become floating heads leaving our bodies numb.
When it comes time to jump in the sack, our minds are going 90 miles an hour and our bodies miss out on a whole lot of pleasure.
Perhaps the benefit of smelly products like perfume or Scentuelle are they remind us to stay in our bodies. It is a nice pick-me-up in the middle of a crazy day. It sets a healthy intention that we are sexual creatures and we should enjoy the sexual experience instead of going from zero to orgasm in 60 seconds.
Final assessment: Why scent works to increase your libido is a little fact and a little hocus-pocus. If it gets you good to go, who cares why?
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