Through our senses we can see and listen, it’s OK, but smelling or sniffing is different!

Yes! It's different as it is more intimate a sense to us (to our brain also) than seeing or listening.

Seeing is mere the reflection of outer world on our eyes and listening is our eardrum vibrating in tune with the sound waves falling on it.

Our nose, however, envelopes life's aromas and sucks them in, into our bodies, savoring them.

It is a selfish creature, taking in all that comes in its path and trapping its chords, like a familiar melody, into our memories.

Smelling is the most intimate experience.

You might counter, but it is so as fragrance is associated with the part of brain that controls our feelings and memory.

See an old photograph of your school or college life it will take you to those memories!

Listen to an old song of your hay days that is close to you, it too spontaneously takes you into the maze of memories you cherish!

But when you happen to sniff a smell similar to smell associated with the place, person, event or lifetime you spent in your past it not only take you close to those memories but cruises you into the feelings that you went through in your past!

You kind of relive those moments in your experience! Déjà Vu!

Certainly it creates more intimate feelings than visual or auditory senses.

Hence fragrance is very close to us, to our feelings.

What are we, if not what we feel?

Snatching sense of smell from our body system is like losing a great degree of intimacy in our feelings and memories from us.

What will be our quality of life if our feelings lose their warmth and intensity, even though we can still see and listen?

Since it is so close to feelings that it becomes as difficult to give words to it as is with the feelings it reflect.

It is far easier to describe visual image or stimulus than a scent or perfume.

In fact there is nothing to be said about a perfume or scent you can just smell it and that is all.

If you happen to go through a valley of flowers the magical smell of scent there turns you oblivious of everything even of you yourself!

Not only a good perfume can turn on your mood but can also work to turn on your partner!

Human body odor and human pheromones have a great deal of secrets to tell about the person.

Even women have unconsciously been using the body odor as a tool to choose their partner or mate.

Candle light dinner is famous not only for the light of candle but the scent of candle that works!

A gourmet knows very well how a good aroma can make you feel hungry instantly!

A great cook has a nose that has an extra sense of smell.

A great cook controls her/his recipe with the smell coming out of it in the cooking process.

If you go a bit sensitive for smell you see how well can it soothe you, relax you and make your life experience rich.

Scent of exotic rains gives a exotic experience.

A farmer knows how sweet the earth scent is!

A cook knows the taste of the recipe is the smell it exudes!

And look how conscious we are about fusing scent to our food and drinks.

Tea is available in market in different scents infused in.

Costly wines have always been mixed with myrrh.

Every emotional state is associated with a smell that we do not remain aware about.

Poets are not fools when they talk about eyes sniffing the smell or nose seeing the unseen.

Whenever human soul soars into higher spiritual realms there are distinct kinds of fragrances that the nose senses with a strange bliss.

No deity is showering fragrant flowers from skies but the fragrance is there from our own biology that indicate that health and spirituality are not two but one and the same thing.

Let us explore the joy of this strong sense of scent gifted to our body senses and make our lives richer in the experience of quality.

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