[ SECRET POST #5826 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5826 ⌋

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Re: From yesterday's general comments...

[(Anonymous)]

The dog separation anxiety calmed by smell thing might actually make sense because dogs have better senses of smell than people—but it would have to be stuff like "smell of moldy old tennis ball," "bacon," "sweaty old shoes of person who walks me," etc.

And since essential oils are so concentrated, I'm reminded of the scenes in Terry Pratchett's books where a werewolf tracker is stymied by criminals dumping peppermint oil in a busy street and goes home with a headache, both from trying to follow a million crossing scent trails and because for anything with a wolf nose it'd be like getting a noseful of ammonia.

A lot of the scents humans like are cultural and habitual, but I dunno if dogs are at all similar. They'd probably like the smell of their favorite person's dirty clothes but maybe also their perfume/cologne/soap?

Re: From yesterday's general comments...

[(Anonymous)]

Essential oil merchant here (gonna call myself by this nickname from now on - I am not, but some people here seem to believe that, so be it) but there are two things to note about humans' sense of smell -

1. Our (humans') sense of smell is also very powerful, actually. It's said that smell is the best sense for triggering memories but they don't always reach our conscience. Even because we tend to be visual first and foremost. See: "Indeed, unlike the other sensory systems, the sense of smell does not pass through the thalamus to be routed to the cortex. Rather, odor information is relayed directly to the limbic system, a brain region typically associated with memory and emotional processes. This provides olfaction with a unique and potent power to influence mood, acquisition of new information, and use of information in many different contexts including social interactions." (Source: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4330889/)

2. It's true that memories influence our likes and dislikes when it comes to scents (see above) but cultural and habitual doesn't seem to begin to explain why some people love, say, smell of gasoline while others exposed to similar experiences hate it. Maybe there's a biochemical aspect to it, maybe not, it's a mystery(.gif) so far really.
(if we REALLY must, a """scientific""" source: https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/why-some-people-love-the-smell-of-gasoline)

So, uhh. It's a bit of a wrong belief that our sense of smell plainly sucks.