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Rachel Herz is a leading expert on the psychology of smell. She is on the faculty at Brown University. She is the author of The Scent of Desire. See full bio

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The Scent of Sex

This is the month when we turn our hearts and minds to love. February 14, our calendar's date for romance, became connected with St. Valentine in the high middle ages, and has evolved to be celebrated with love notes, mass consumption of chocolate, and first or special dates. Read More

Feel Aroma during Parties

I always use different varities of Scents and Poppers to add Aroma feel to my parties.They smells good and keeps us rocking.

Scent of Sex

As a guy smell is an immediate turn on or off. And it doesn't have to do with perfumes, although it can. Not sure a reaction so primal can be overriden by other factors ?

My other comments which has nothing to do with smells is to be weary of all this research proving this or that, including the ones cited in this article. In my experience reality is a lot more flexible than it appears and we often prove what we set out to prove whether consciously or not.

isn't there a danger that we

isn't there a danger that we are simply dressing up noxious victorian stereotypes of gender roles as science-

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