Aromas and mood

The world of smells surrounds us everywhere and continuously. Tens of irritants from which only we consciously distinguish the few get every minute into a nasal cavity of the person. The majority of reactions to surrounding smells has subconscious character.


It is known that out of all feelings the sense of smell is the most sensitive, most quicker transferring external irritation to a brain. The numerical size of sensitivity of a nose on odorous substances is really unimaginable.


The smells getting into a nose with the inhaled air at first are dissolved in a moist mucous membrane of a nose, the terminations of olfactory nerves which are there irritate, and then are transferred on special cages directly to a brain hypothalamus.
The fact that smells get directly into a hypothalamus is represented very important as this tiny body regulates tens of functions in an organism, such as temperature, thirst, hunger, sugar level in blood, growth, a dream, awakening, sexual excitement and such emotions as anger and joy.


At the same time the signal of a smell goes to the area called a hippocampus — the part of a brain responsible for memory and attention. For this reason smells so vividly cause in us various memoirs, quicker, than any other irritants.
According to the psychologist of the MEDSI Kliniko-diagnostichesky center on Belarusian Olga Scherbakova, began to smell kitchens, aromas of flowers and spirits — all this generates feeling that the events now once were with you. Gardens in which you walked once became a part you thanks to long impact of their aroma on your brain. Any event stores the smell in our memory.


It is impossible to overestimate value of sense of smell in human life. The range of its opportunities is extremely wide. It stretches from biological, protective function to the diverse emotional and psychological impressions not indifferent for the general health of people.


The aromatherapy has big history. Aromatic essential oils with success were applied for a long time in doctoring, treatment of people from various illnesses. It is science which studies impact of various smells on state of mind of the person. Interest in this problem arose not accidentally. Joy, offense, delight, disappointment, love, hatred — these and other feelings dazzle in our life as color fragments of glass in a kaleidoscope.


Aromas will help to keep composure, to improve mood, to take off fatigue, to be adjusted on a festive harmony.

Harmonize: rose, geranium, jasmine, orange, incense.

Weaken: rose, lavender, orange, basil, sandal-wood tree, coriander, tea tree, not roles, cypress, camomile, jasmine.

Calm: fennel, jasmine, rose, geranium, not roles, anise, eucalyptus, tea tree, thyme, juniper, orange, lavender, camomile, muscat sage.

Refresh: orange, lemon, rosemary, lavender, mint, fir.

The aroma of a citrus, needles create festive mood. Aromas of cinnamon and vanilla will give feeling of a cosiness.