It is a consensus that scent can affect the intensity of sexual desire. Men often think that roses, chocolate, or wine are the best weapons to make a woman's heart flutter, but scientific research has proven that these things are useless except for enhancing the romantic atmosphere. The scents that truly stimulate female sexual desire are actually the most common ones: licorice extract, cucumber, and baby powder.
It is a consensus that scent can affect the intensity of sexual desire. Men often think that roses, chocolate, or wine are the best weapons to make a woman's heart flutter, but scientific research has proven that these things are useless except for enhancing the romantic atmosphere. The scents that truly stimulate female sexual desire are actually the most common ones: licorice extract, cucumber, and baby powder.
Dr. Alan Hirsch of the Smell & Taste Treatment and Research Foundation in Chicago came to the above conclusion after many years of research. He found that these three scents increase vaginal blood flow in women by about 13%, which means an increase in the level of sexual arousal.
In addition, the sweet scent of pumpkin pie also helps to stimulate female sexual desire, although the effect is not as strong as the three mentioned above. However, it is the scent that most excites men.
In contrast, Dr. Hirsch also found that cherries, charcoal-grilled meat, and men's cologne can "short-circuit" the existing romantic atmosphere, as these scents cause a significant decrease in vaginal blood flow in women.
Dr. Hirsch believes that scents can arouse sexual desire because, on one hand, the sense of smell is directly related to the septal nucleus in the brain, which mainly controls sexual arousal, and the scents themselves can also stimulate the production of neurotransmitters in the brain. On the other hand, pheromones may be at play.
Pheromones are volatile trace chemicals produced by the bodies of animals or plants, which people tend to ignore or cannot perceive at all. For example, ants communicate with each other by secreting pheromones, and mammals also use pheromones to help their offspring learn to recognize parents and enemies. The phenomenon of menstrual synchronization gradually appearing among female college students living in the same dormitory is also due to the key role of pheromones. Therefore, it may be the pheromones contained in these different scents that are secretly adjusting the level of human sexual arousal.
It seems that to make sex more passionate, you don't really need candlelight dinners or supplements. Just massaging the area behind the ears with cucumber slices, or sprinkling a little baby powder and applying some licorice extract, might be more effective than cologne, roses, and chocolate.