10 facts about the most useful smells

Smell is one of the five senses and plays a significant role in our lives. Smells, either strong or subtle, both pleasant and nasty, constantly surround us. But there are fragrances that can make you look younger, lose weight, or increase efficiency at work.

• 1. If you stand over the copier for only half a minute, then you can forget about visiting the forest-fields after the rain for 81 years! The amount of ozone emitted by copiers is almost a billion times more than "natural" ozone. Just do not think that this is useful: ozone is the strongest oxidizing agent. It speeds up all processes in the human body. And the main one, unfortunately, is aging.

• 2. It turns out that with the help of an orange you can save on alcohol pretty well! The smell of orange helps one warm up and creates a feeling of freedom. But it will still be difficult to explain to the guests why they are invited not for a glass of Burgundy, but for a pinch of orange peel.

• 3. Women who have a strong addiction to lavender bouquets should be slightly wary. This predilection speaks not so much about the lady's love for flowers, but about her depressive state, with which nothing but lavender, the strongest antidepressant, can cope.

• 4. A young girl who wants to lose weight should be given ... chocolate wrappers! If after such a gift you manage to get her to listen to an explanation, then you can tell that the smell of chocolate causes the formation of endorphins - hormones of joy. And besides the anti-stress effect, endorphins also exacerbate sexual desires and have an analgesic effect.

• 5. It is best to drink tea with lemon, contrary to the requirements of your boss, at your workplace. And when the management will be trying to expel you into the kitchen, cite the studies by Japanese scientists that the smell of lemon reduces the number of errors when working at a computer by as much as 54%.

• 6. Almost any smell can be used as a medicine or ... a mini time machine. The reaction to the effect of smell develops instantly: before one had time to blink, and he is already in the past. To do this, you just need to “attach” the fragrance to a pleasant memory. And when a person is happy, he is already practically healthy (the release of endorphins, neurotransmitters and antibodies increases in his body, which helps the healing process greatly).

• 7. According to one of the legends, Zeus's wife Hera seduced her husband with the help of a magical fragrant belt taken from Aphrodite. Modern aroma specialists believe that the composition of the aphrodisiac fragrance, against which the main Greek god could not resist, could well be: ylang-ylang, nutmeg, pink vanilla, jasmine and carnation.

• 8. Does your friend give you grapefruit oil instead of a painkiller pill? There is no need to rush to lose a friend! This oil is widely known as a pain reliever in aromatherapy.

• 9. Useful medicinal smells can sometimes cause a severe headache and ... nothing else. If a person does not like this particular smell, his body will not benefit from it - even if this aroma is able to cure the rest of humanity.

• 10. For a pregnant woman who does not know whether the moment of childbirth is already approaching or whether she has been overtaken by the so-called "harbinger contractions" (Braxton Hicks contractions, or fake contractions) it is enough to rub herself with jasmine oil. If the contractions are “training” ones, they will pass from such manipulations.