Before couples do anything further intimate, they need to create a better atmosphere, and smell is one of the more important issues, and the smell that can effectively arouse the female partner’s sexual desire can help them move on to the next part more quickly. So do women know what scents they are most sensitive to? Rose scent? Aromatherapy? The most common scents are licorice, cucumber and baby powder.
Studies show unusual scents are more appealing
Men often think that roses, chocolate, or wine are the best way to make a woman feel good. Chocolate or wine are the best weapons to make a woman’s heart flutter, but studies by scientists have proven that these things do nothing but enhance the smell of romance. The real scents that stimulate women’s sexual desire are instead the most common scents of licorice extract, cucumber, and baby powder.
Dr. Alan Hirsch of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago, USA, came to these conclusions after years of research. He found that these 3 scents increase vaginal blood flow in women by about 13%, which translates to an increased level of sexual arousal. In addition, the sweet smell of pumpkin pie also helps to stimulate female sexual desire, only the effect is not as strong as the above 3. However, it’s the flavor that turns men on the most.
In contrast, Dr. Hirsch also found that cherries, charcuterie, and male cologne “short-circuit” the original sexual atmosphere because they cause a significant drop in vaginal blood flow in women. The woman’s vaginal blood flow dropped significantly.
“It’s interesting that men like to smell perfume on women; women can’t handle men wearing perfume, which reduces the blood flow to the vagina.” Hertz said.
Hertz explained that the association between sexual desire and scent often stems from people’s memories. “Smell is an exogenous stimulus that can go straight to the core part of the brain, which is the center of stimulation of sexual desire. Different smells conjure up different scenarios, such as the scent of a bagel being associated with comfort and coziness.”
Reasons why smells can arouse sexual desire
Dr. Hirsch believes that smells arouses sexual desire because, on the one hand, smell is directly related to the septal nucleus, the brain’s primary control of sexual arousal, and taste itself stimulates the production of neurotransmitters in the brain. On the other hand, it may be that pheromones are at work. Pheromones are volatile trace chemicals produced by the body of animals or plants, which are often easily ignored or not perceived at all. Ants, for example, secrete pheromones to communicate with their peers, and mammals use pheromones to teach their offspring to recognize their parents from their enemies. Pheromones also play a key role in the gradual synchronization of menstruation in female college students living in the same dormitory. So it may be that the pheromones contained in these different flavors are secretly orchestrating the degree of arousal of the human libido.
It seems that to make sex more passionate, you don’t really need a candlelit dinner or a tonic, just a few massages behind the ears with a cucumber slice, or a sprinkle of talcum powder or a dab of licorice extract, which may be more effective than cologne and roses and chocolate.