Want To Seem More Attractive? Have A Pleasant Smell

Thursday, May 29, 2014 - 19:30 in Psychology & Sociology

Want to be sexier? Ask your next potential boyfriend to meet you in a bakery. Perfumes and scented products have been used for centuries as a way to enhance overall personal appearance and studies have shown that perception of facial attractiveness could be influenced when using unpleasant vs. pleasant odors - but it was not known whether odors influence the actual visual perception of facial features or alternatively, how faces are emotionally evaluated by the brain.  read more

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