The scent of a special fragrance can evoke memories and emotions before we are even consciously aware of it. Where smells are concerned, we react first and think later. All other senses (touch, taste, hearing, and sight) are routed through the thalamus, which acts as the switchboard for the brain, passing stimuli onto the cerebral cortex (the conscious thought center) and other parts of the brain. Therefore, all our other senses are to some degree ‘filtered’ by the various conditions of ‘conscious allowance’.
Scents directly trigger the autonomic nervous system. This is so that smell can stimulate an immediate survival response without first engaging our cognitive faculty, which might be too slow or incorrect. Of all our senses, smell is the most intimately associated with our emotions and feelings. Of all five senses, our sense of smell is the only one directly linked to the limbic lobe of the brain, the emotional control center. Anxiety, depression, fear, anger, and joy all emanate from this region.
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