What Scents Drive You Crazy?

Have you seen the movie Perfume? With a tiny droplet of this exquisite scent, enemies bow down and worship you like a god. A good whiff of it in the air, a crowd with aggression slips into a trance of euphoric orgy. Well, if you haven’t seen that, you must have seen the AXE commercial where the magic shampoo turns men into a powerful magnet for every sensual woman.

Be it to conquer the world or to conquer women (or men), chemists/alchemists have been looking for the magic potion from the beginning of the time. Now the modern scientists give us some new clues.

For women, the smell of musk can keep the blood flowing, making them feel aroused. This is why most of the cologne/perfume contain musk.

What about for men? What drives them crazy? A recent study by Dr. Alan Hirsch, founder of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago, and his colleague Dr. Jason Grussman gives us an very interesting list. (The study is done by letting men smell different combination of scent and measuring the blood flow to their nether regions.)

1. Lavender and pumpkin pie

2. Doughnut and black licorice

3. Pumpkin pie and doughnut

4. Orange

5. Lavender and doughnut

6. Black licorice and cola

7. Black licorice

8. Doughnut and cola

9. Lily of the valley

10. Buttered popcorn

Next time when you two have a romantic getaway, try rubbing some pumpkin pie on you?

And, what scents drive you crazy? Care to share with us?

Links:

http://www.gmanews.tv/story/183988/unsexy-scents-that-drive-men-wild

http://www.scienceofsmell.com/index.cfm?action=research.sexual

情书

今天偶然看到这两个字，突然觉得陌生了起来。

每天收发email,拿着手机发短信的时候，甚至开始怀疑是不是已经忘了那些坐在窗前，摊开信纸，明明有很多话要说，却无从下笔的那些下午，是不是已经忘了邮递员来的时候，雀跃着去打开信箱，满心期待，或满足或失望的心情。

也不能说那时候的爱情更简单，更单纯，可是觉得至少那一封封的情书是真实存在的。认认真真的读上面的每一个字，反反复复，一直到全部都能背下来，然后小心翼翼放起来，开始期待着下一封。晚上睡觉前却经不住怀念，甚至可以记得每一个标点符号的位置。一想到那封信，那个人，嘴角含笑。

还记得一个好朋友向我绘声绘色的描述她先生向他求婚的细节，真是个很细心的男生，把他们之前往来的信件都仔细收好，按照年份整理并且用红色的丝带缠好。这些情书记录了他们恋爱的经过，吵架也好，甜蜜的情话也好，都是对爱情的纪念。后来我问到，那你怎么回答他的求婚呢？当然是YES！是阿，没有人会对着那些大摞大摞的情书say NO。在感情的世界里，很多时候女生需要的是那一份真诚，那一种用心，来增加她的安全感。而这些都不是用金钱能换来的。

当然，email也好，手机短信也好，表达感情的方式千千万万种，只是有的时候，会开始怀念那些信纸拿在手上沉甸甸的感觉，也许怀念的是那时候的爱情。