Let there be SCENTS!

Greetings! I am going to try to update daily with:

• the inner workings of the fragrance industry
  
• reviews of aroma chemicals and natural extracts
  
• trends in perfumery
  
• accords (sets of fragrance raw materials that, together, make a single fragrance note)
• fragrance terminology
  

Scents are an integral part of our everyday life. You may have heard that the sense of smell is more tied to memory than any other sense, and this is a scientifically proven fact. The nerves that transmit signals from your olfactory gland (in the upper part of your nose), pass through the hippocampus (the portion of the brain responsible for converting experiences into long-term memories), before being processed. This often leads to a person recalling an event or memory from earlier in their life before recognizing what they are smelling.

However, it does not explain why the smell of ginger essential oil makes me think of the bleachers in my high school gym class...