In these stressful times, you probably are dealing with a variety of worries. Will you or your loved ones get sick? Will your business survive? Will the country head into a Great Depression? Take a deep breath. Anxiety in itself causes health issues are ironically makes you more susceptible to viruses and other pathogens. Try […]
If you have a spa or are designing one, you should pay particular attention to its sensory design. This includes sight (lighting, color scheme, cleanliness), sound (noise, music), feel (temperature, comfort) and smell (ambient scent, product scents and outside scents). Sight and Sound Spa goers preferred natural materials for the spa design, favoring wood (37%), […]
Scientists have known for decades that scent influences our emotions and moods since it is processed in the limbic system, the seat of our emotions and associative memory in the brain. Although an individual’s specific experiences shape scent preferences, many scent-emotion connections are very common. For example, most people feel happier and more positive when […]
Americans have a big problem with not getting enough zzz’s; somewhere between 50 and 70 million US adults have a sleep disorder. More than a third (37.9%) report unintentionally falling asleep during the day at least one time in the previous month. Even more alarming, nearly 5% said they had nodded off or fallen asleep […]
Your sense of smell is probably the sense that you most take for granted. In fact, in a survey of people ages 16 to 30, more than half of them (53%) said they would rather give up their sense of smell than their laptop or mobile phone. Although the sense of smell is highly important […]
A research group recently published a study they did on the emotional effect of scent. They measured the galvanic skin response, like that used in a lie detector test, to determine individuals’ emotional reaction to scent. The study The study tested 50 people, split into a test group and a control group. All participants were […]
Have you heard about the Danish concept of hygge (pronounced hue-guh)? It is an unpretentious feeling of conscious appreciation, being in the moment and having a level of relaxed charm, comfort and coziness, and more and more Americans are seeking to incorporate it into their lives, often through home scenting. Although you can feel hygge […]
At a thought-provoking talk at Dutch Design Week 2017, security experts said that light and scent can be used to influence people’s mood and behavior so that there is less violence, including terrorism. Tinus Kanters, project manager at the Dutch Institute for Technology, Safety and Security is part of a project to improve public safety […]
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