Smells Like Aromatheraphy

It’s widely known the slogan of the deodorant Teen Spirit, that Nirvana borrowed to name their most famous song, Smells Like Teen Spirit. Where advertisers evoke the stainless teenagers, Nirvana picked the shallowness of a prefabricated culture of success. Smells, like words, can suggest feelings, what perfumists know well, and can be healing. Welcome to Aromatherapy.

Close your eyes for a while. The smell of cake can bring you back to your childhood, when you were eager to eat your mother’s recipes or to smell lavender can address you to where you used to spend your holidays. There’s nothing more wicked than absence of smell, or should we speak of Grenouille, the character of The Perfume?

Aromatherapy is a form of alternative medicine that uses volatile plant materials, known as essential oils, and similar aromatic compounds from plants, for the purpose of improving a person's mood, cognitive function or health*, and it’s been practiced since antiquity. There are several material with which develop it, but let’s go for the easiest, from smelling from its natural container.

These are some smells that can improve your health without realizing and you can find easily:

• Lavender: Calm and relax.
• Lemon: Invigorates and reduces stress.
• Rose: Aphrodisiac.
• Eucalyptus: Relief for flu or cold.
• Jasmine: Aphrodisiac.
• Basil: Anti-depressive, sharpener of sexual concentration, relieves headaches and migraines

Picture credits

Tasmanian lavender fields by Rowan M. McDonnald, from Wikipedia: Lavender