Still smells like Christmas…??

pine tree

I’ve just recently ran into an article that explains how Americans love the different scents of Christmas, and particularly the one of Pine Tree. ScentSicles has been working on the development of scented ornaments to make also fake pine trees smell like real trees. How cool is that? This way we can avoid to kill trees and be all earth-friendly (they’re also biodegradable). And still enjoy good smell 🙂

The Ability of Smell: a Virtue that You Can Train

Little was known about how we (humans) smell and taste until the early 1990’s when groundbreaking research revealed that humans have less than 1000 (maybe as many as 950) discrete odor receptor sites residing in the olfactory epithelium and of those many were non-functional, essentially vestigial, with only about 300 being “active” sites.  Why so many of the sites were non-functional has been explained many ways most of which

The Spectrum of Scent

Nature is the consummate creator of olfactory beauty. Consider the classic florals – rose, gardenia, jasmine, tuberose, lilac to name a few. For so many of us their visual beauty elicits unbelievably persistent and clear memories of their spring/summer odor. If we move on to the stone fruits – peaches, nectarines, plums, apricots, mangoes, apples, and cherries as well as their berry counterparts – raspberries, blueberries, boysenberries, strawberries, blackberries, dewberries, elderberries, gooseberries, and others, we are reminded of their incredibly sweet and inviting tastes.

Poll Results are In!

It is widely believed that our olfactory sense triggers the brain to recall memories.  This statement got our team thinking, what does our childhood smell like?  I think it is fascinating that each of us had different ideas when it came the the smell of our childhood.  Perhaps, this is what makes “the smell of childhood” as individual as each of our experiences.