How do scents affect your mood?

With each new season comes distinctive scents. Summer brings smells of fresh-cut grass, blossoming flowers and the ocean breeze. Your sense of smell actually sharpens in spring and summer with the air full of extra moisture. You likely know from experience that the way a space smells can affect your mood. Obviously, if you’re in a place that has a disagreeable smell, you are more likely to be in a bad mood.

Conversely, if you walk into a room that features a pleasant smell, you are more likely to be a good mood. However, your sense of smell influences your moods much more than you may know. Smell is the most sensitive of the senses. As infants, smell is the first sense to develop. Our noses have as many as six million odor detecting cells.