Love at first smell?…Think again.

Let me tell you something, if you smell good you will get some good loving. PERIOD…at least for a while.

Since I can remember the smell of a person is really important to me. There’s something that triggers my senses and I feel attracted to them instantly. What is it? Chemistry? Good perfume? Good hygiene? I don’t know.

When you’re turned on by your partner’s scent, taking a deep whiff of their chest or the back of her/his neck feels like taking a powerful drug—it’s an instant flume ride to bliss, however momentary. Strange, huh?

So, I decided to do a little bit of research on this matter. Let’s see:

Attraction

• Smelling good plays an important part in the attraction you may feel for your partner.
• Everyone knows what it’s like to be powerfully affected by a partner’s smell—witness men who bury their noses in their wives’ hair and women who can’t stop sniffing their boyfriends’ T-shirts. And couples have long testified to the ways scent-based chemistry affects their relationships.
•  Some researchers think scent could be the hidden cosmological constant in the sexual universe, the missing factor that explains who we end up with. It may even explain why we feel “chemistry”—or “sparks” or “electricity”—with one person and not with another.
• Physical attraction itself may literally be based on smell.
• Research has shown that we use scent-based signaling mechanisms to suss out compatibility.
• Body odor is an external manifestation of the immune system, and the smells we think are attractive come from the people who are most genetically compatible with us.
• Much of what we vaguely call “sexual chemistry” is likely a direct result of this scent-based compatibility.

Perfumes, cologne, deodorants

• Since the 20th-century hygiene revolution and the rise of the personal-care industry, however, companies have pitched deodorants, perfumes, and colognes to consumers as the epitome of sex appeal. But instead of furthering our quest to find the perfect mate, such products may actually derail it, say researchers, by masking our true scent and making it difficult for prospects to assess compatibility.
• Modern hygiene may be such an impediment to sexual signaling that it could explain why so many people in our culture get so physical so fast. Hunter-gatherers didn’t have to do a lot of kissing, because they could smell each other pretty clearly from a few feet away.

Other details…

• Kissing is thought by some scientists to have developed from sniffing; that first kiss being essentially a primal behaviour during which we smell and taste our partner to decide if they are a match.
• Smell loss can affect one’s ability to form and maintain close personal relationships and can lead to depression.
• Researchers who surveyed undergraduate students in long-term relationships found over half of men and nearly 90 percent of women had deliberately smelled their partner’s shirt or blouse.

Opinion

Well I’ve learned that I’m attracted to men whose genetically coded immunities are different from my own. Interesting! Also, I learned that perfumes and colognes could be a trick to realized if I like this person smell or not…humm that’s probably why I haven’t like some people without their perfume. *_* Kind of cool, right?

If you aren’t sure about someone take a small test and tell them to not use deodorant, perfume and cologne. Also, you can’t use any! Let’s see if is real attraction or not! Hehe Good luck!

Have a good weekend!

xoxo,

Cristina