For Europeans, Chanel perfumes are considered pleasant, while New Guineans hate this smell, but adore the amber of pork fat. How is it that different nations evaluate smells differently? Does the smell conceal only the taste aspect, or is there something else behind it? Why do we pay attention to the smell of our partner on the first date, even though we don't even think about it before the date? Why should married couples sleep under different blankets? You will find the answer to all these questions in this article.
The world of smells and man
In a world where every day a person sees a lot of information, the role of smells always fades into the background. But if for us the smell is something secondary, then for animals the smell is a tool of interaction with the world and a silent alarm.
There is an experience in history that was carried out in Kuwait in 1995. The government imported wolf urine from Sweden. What for? It was a large number of accidents caused by collisions between cars and camels. Highways and city streets were treated with imported wolf urine. As a result, the smell of wolf urine scared the camels away, and the number of accidents dropped dramatically.
It's all about pheromones. What are pheromones?
One zip and you are attractive & hellip; or vice versa.
It turns out that pheromones are a means of transmitting information, but let's figure out which one. There are several types of pheromones.
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- If you have a … question, how to drive up to that beauty at the extreme table, then sex pheromones - attractants - stand out.
- You drove up, but her boyfriend approached - the regional boxing champion. In this case, toribones are produced - pheromones of danger, formed during fear and anxiety.
- When walking with your dog, your pet periodically marks trees, walls, posts, etc. This is not only a dog check-in, but also a way to leave odmichnions - marks by which the animal finds its way home.
- There are also lichneumonia - they help to disguise themselves as a different species and escape from a predator. And etophions are, in fact, calls to certain actions through the smell.
Since, giving examples, I spoke about both people and animals, I will say the following. We, along with marmosets, macaques, chimpanzees and gorillas, are haplorin, so that images and sound play the greatest role in our life. Therefore, we underestimate the role of smell a little, but in vain. Let's listen to scientists:
How to prevent a decrease in sex drive
Sleep under different blankets. This, of course, is not about being under different blankets, in different apartments and with different partners. Unfortunately, scientists have proven that when a couple sleeps under the same blanket for a long time, people experience fatigue in certain areas of the brain associated with sexual desire due to the high concentration of sex attractants.
And who gets the blanket?
Evolution and smells
Smell recognition has another evolutionary challenge. Smell is needed in order to "read" the set of genes of a potential partner and, thus, to avoid inbreeding.
True expression of love.
If you really want the smell of acquaintance to play on your team, and you don't go to the bench, here's a tip for single men:
If you do not look very good, well, or at least think so of yourself, then take care of the woman in the phase of minimal receptivity. How to track it down? In this phase, girls are usually especially attracted by the appearance of something: things, people. In fact, the combination of "oh, what a little thing" and "want-want" with increased receptivity will appear much more often. With a decrease in these characteristics, men with the most attractive appearance smell the least sexy for women. Perhaps it was in this phase that the women came up with the comical phrase that a man should look a little prettier than a monkey.
It turns out that the sense of smell is not only an entertainment in gray everyday life, but also a serious tool that affects all areas of human life from eating to choosing a partner with whom you will live the rest of your life. And in general it is very exciting when something that we cannot see influences our life so much. Perhaps because of this, perfumers sell their perfumes at such cosmic prices, and they chase some fragrances all their lives.
What scent haunts you? Write all your most daring (preferably decent) versions in the comments.
Artem Batogov