Have you heard of aromacology?
It is often confused with aromatherapy, but despite being closely related and sounding very similar, they refer to different things.
While aromatherapy is a therapeutic discipline that uses the properties of essential oils that are extracted from aromatic plants for beneficial purposes for the body, aromacology or psychology of aromas, is the science that studies the psychological impact produced by odors: How the aromas of emotions, behavior, mind affect, ultimately.
In some previous article we already talked about how the sense of smell is connected to the part of the brain that processes emotions. When we smell something, it becomes information that goes first to the limbic system and hypothalamus. These are the areas of the brain responsible for Emotions, feelings, instincts and impulses, so it is normal to associate an aroma or a fragrance to some particular memory.
Aromacology links the temporal effects of fragrance on feelings and emotions through the stimulus of olfactory pathways.
Have you heard of aromacology? that studies the psychological impact that smells produce: how the aromas of emotions, behavior, mind affect, in short. In some previous article we already talk about how the meaning of smell is connected to the part of the brain that processes emotions. When we smell something, it becomes information that goes first to the limbic system and hypothalamus. These are the areas of the brain responsible for emotions, feelings, instincts and impulses, so it is normal to associate an aroma or a fragrance to some particular memory. Aromacology links the temporal effects of fragrance on feelings and emotions through the stimulus of olfactory roads.
