Smell Work Shop

Sweet smell of Success

     There are people in a hall gathering some data about a fragrance. Males were all over the ladies trying to get near them as close as possible to their necks. the ladies are wearing beautiful blck dress, like a cocktail dress but short sleves and exposing their clevage. some of them are wearing black bkini’s from Victroria Sectrets…. exposing their curves and splended figures. at the end all man are going crazy and wild about the smell and the seductiveness of the fragrance.

Sexual Arousal Using the Sense of Smell

Sexual Arousal Using the Sense of Smell

     The sense of smell is one of the most important senses and research shows those women are more attracted to scents that are different than theirs. What is smell? It is the sense that enables an organism to perceive and distinguish the odors of various substances, also known as olfaction. In humans, the organ of smell is situated in the mucous membrane of the upper portion of the nasal cavity. It is made up of olfactory cells, which are nerve cells that function as receptors for the sense of smell. The sense of smell however isn’t highly developed in humans as in many vertebrates.

    Each person has an odor, a unique chemical signature, as an individual has his or her fingerprint. So if you don’t like the way your mate smells that can be a problem. It is extremely important that you like the way your lover smells. Recent research has shown that paying close attention to the scent when choosing a partner makes scientific sense, especially woman who have much more highly developed olfactory functions. The man who smells best will have a genetically based immunity to disease that differs most from your own.

     The sense of smell can be such a powerful turn-on for men and woman that when neurologist Alan Hirsch, director of the Smell and Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago, investigated men who had lost their sense of smell, he found that 25% of them also developed sexual dysfunction. But when sense of smell was restored, sexual performance improved as well. There are many men and woman that prefer their mate “unperformed” with perfumes and colognes. They’d rather smell their mate’s “true body scent”. The scent can give off pheromones which is a chemical signal emitted by humans and animals that serves as a stimulus to elicit one or more behavioral responses from another member of the same species.

     These pheromones are supposed to heighten your physical and sexual presence. Released into the air, they send out subconscious messages to the opposite sex and trigger strong feelings of desire/ and or attraction. Pheromones are sold worldwide and range between $25-50. Many people buy them to attract a mate. Woman produce pheromone in their armpits, but it hasn’t been proven the chemicals attract males.

     New research on biochemistry and aromatherapy has established biological explanations for man’s physiological responses to smell. Based on the findings, environmental and biochemical scents work on the limbic region, the brain’s sex part, and affect human emotion, behavior and even health.

     Singles will have a much better chance of meeting the man or woman of their choice with perfumes and colognes containing human pheromones, maintains Gary Havel, president of Intimate Research Inc., a Worth, Ill., company that specializes in mixing human sex pheromones with fragrances. “Experiments have proven that pheromones can attract the opposite sex and lead to better sex lives for people who apply a few drops of pheromone fragrance each day. Of course, single people will always continue to meet new people, but pheromone fragrances give people a distinct advantage in attracting more people, which translates into more opportunities to meet `Mr. or Ms. Right.'”

     Professor Martha McClintock at the University of Chicago, is an expert on odor and behavior who published a famous study in the early 1970s that showed that the menstrual cycles of college women living in dorms became synchronized through exposure to one another’s pheromones, those faint chemical signals released from the skin that control the mating rituals of much of the animal kingdom. McClintock has a new study in Nature Genetics, that makes an even more provocative link between sex and odor–specifically, the odor of a T shirt worn by a man on two consecutive days. The experiment was simple. The T shirts were carefully prepared (no cologne, no cigarettes, and no sex) and then placed in boxes where they could be smelled but not seen. Forty-nine unmarried women were asked to sniff the boxes and choose which box they would prefer “if they had to smell it all the time.”

     The women were attracted to the smell of a man who was genetically similar–but not too similar, to their dads. McClintock thinks there’s an evolutionary explanation. “Mating with someone too similar might lead to inbreeding,” she says. Mating with someone too different “leads to the loss of desirable gene combinations.” McClintock isn’t suggesting you can attract a mate by smell alone, but that hasn’t discouraged companies like Erox from bottling pheromones and stopping just short of calling them aphrodisiacs.

     While working at the University of Utah with natural compounds produced by human skin, Dr. David Berliner, CEO of Pherin Pharmaceuticals, a researcher noticed a surprising change in the behavior of his male and female colleagues. “They developed an increased level of camaraderie that was hard to explain,” he says. There were smiles, eye contact and increased approachability until the skin extracts were removed, at which point the group reverted to normal behavior.

     So next time when you our out on a date, you may want to get a good sniff before you decide to continue to take a step further.

Thought’s on Smell

     I am really big on smell , i like my house and myself to be smelling good all the time . the most smell taht i like as far as house goes is lavender. i also have a  hobbyof collecting colonge and also changing them evry often . i have almnost 15 colonge on my dresser and tend to wear  each one of them on different occasions and different times , sometimes i will use 3 different types of colonge in just a single day . thasts just me also sme ll to me is a taster thing to because i believe that if ucan smell the food that is given to you you cant really taste it.

   

Shrijit Patel

Professor Marlen Harrison

English 101

02/01/09

Arranged Marriage And Personal Choices

People of India basically follow the arranged marriage system, which they consider as something great. Dating is a taboo in that country. However, arranged marriage has its own values and virtues. Indian people give much importance to family relationships. The system aims to protect the family. Parents take care of their children, and children obey their parents. Parents find suitable spouses for their children from appropriate families. So, there is no chance of marrying outside the religion, caste, social status or economic class. That’s where the question arises: Should one live his life by the principles and morals that he has been taught or by the ones that he conceives?

 The son born in a Hindu family is taught strict rules and regulations on how to behave, how to respect his elders, and what is expected of him. This however, can be both good and bad. That is why it’s said, “To make choices between good and bad is easy but what defines one’s life is the choice between the two greater goods and the two lesser evils.” For example, in the Hindu culture, once the son in the family grows up, he is supposed to take care of his parents. Despite the fact that a son would love to do this, his parents won’t accept the person that he loves if she is from a different caste, religion, class or economical status, and threatens their reputation in society; thus, leaving him in a bewildering situation to choose between his love and his parents.

In the Indian culture, in choosing his life partner the egoism of the parents, however, is a major hindrance for a young man. They emphasize the educational level, caste system and reputation of the girl’s family, rather than the feelings of the two lovers. For instance, the son should be more educated than his wife so that society will accept them. In addition, they require the caste of the girl to be equal or higher than theirs. Furthermore, they consider the reputation of the girl’s family instead of the girl herself. Parents in their arrogance totally neglect the feelings of the two young people. To the lovers that is completely balderdash. There is nothing wrong if the girl is more educated, of a lower caste, or if her parents’ reputation is questionable.  He is not marrying her parents. As long as the feelings and understanding between them are good, then everything else should be relinquished.

First of all, parents focus on religious beliefs. If they both have the same religious background, fewer disputes will arise in life for the two. If both families are extremists regarding their culture, disputes would arise, not unlike the present-day religious wars. Marriages are traditionally arranged and within one’s own caste. An arranged marriage is a union between two soon-to-be spouses negotiated by the parents and sometimes the extended family. It is a system which is taken very seriously by all involved. The background of each bride and groom are thoroughly studied to make sure they fit. Marriage within caste is such a strong factor that there are directories that publish a list of eligible Indians and what caste groups they belong to. An example is this web site: www.shadi.com. In the past, an arranged marriage simply meant that the parents or extended family found the companion they felt was suitable for their son or daughter. Although that method is still widely used, it has changed somewhat to suit the new times. Nowadays, the parents will suggest the person they feel is qualified for their son or daughter. If their child approves, after meeting the person and perhaps a brief interview then it’s final. In some cases, the children may even take the initiative to suggest whom they have in mind. The main focus is simply to ensure that the married couple will have the approval and blessings of both their parents. After all, the parents play the main role in the decision. They are the ones who research and check into the background of the person their child wishes to marry. Once again, when parents have a “let go” mentality and there is a strong understanding between the two getting married, problems will be resolved.

 In addition, especially in the United States, some parents focus on the financial stability of the girl.  They don’t say that money is everything, but if both are well off, they will have fewer struggles. Despite the fact that parents are well-wishers, they need to realize that not all people are born with a silver spoon in their mouth. As a matter of fact, when a couple works hard to make their future that will not only help them financially, but will also strengthen their relationship. An example is the young man who recently married and works twice as hard to make ends meet. When he becomes successful, his relationship with his wife should be unbreakable since they have gone through the hardship together.

Lastly, parents need to let go of the “society factor.” They think too much ahead of time about what society thinks, also what society will think about them after the marriage and whether society will keep relations with them after the marriage. They need to know that this “fear factor” is worthless because society does not feed them nor does it shelter them. Despite the fact that being “socially accepted” is good, it becomes meaningless for the couples when it forces their parents to put forth a false front. It is meaningless because in reality “society” should accept them for who they are and not impose the futile regulations.

In conclusion, a young man born in an Indian family and growing up in the American culture faces many tough decisions, especially in the matter of marriage. He respects his parents, and can’t talk back to them nor does he want to accept an arranged marriage as his parents’ see fit. Therefore, he should follow his personal conscience which will guide him through life. Manhattma Gandhi said it best, “Be bold in what you stand for, but be careful what you fall for!” 

 

  My goals for writing this essay is to inform my audience about the hardships hat  young indians living in U.S.A. face when it comes to marriage aand having to follow the culture and believing in indian traditions. I had a hard time finding the picture for this assignment. The picture that i am using for this essay is Marriage à-la-mode by William Hogarth.

     I think i have accomplised my goals in this essay. When i first started writing this essay i was nervous, but as i started poring my thoughts on paper it became eassy for me to write. It was a new experience for me to write something like this because i am not use to writing in this type of setting and the amount of time was short. As  far as i am concern i am proud of myself by writing this essay. Also, if i can write this much on the topic and my audience can follow through this far i think i have accomplished my goals.