Cognitive and emotional influences on fragrance experience

Fragrance experience is the product of the sensory properties of fragrance materials and the psychological processes involved in perception, memory and emotion.

Cognitive And Emotional Influences On Fragrance Experience

Pamela Dalton Monell Chemical Senses Center

Smells are surer than sights or sounds to make your heartstrings crack. (Rudyard Kipling)

Both in life and literature, the emotional power of fragrance has long been acknowledged. At a commercial level, the emotional significance of our response to olfactory experience is affirmed by the success of the multibillion dollar industry that supplies fragrances to scent all manner of products...

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