I'm still binge watching your channel! I'm loving these type of videos. You are the only fragrance reviewer who looks in depth like this and I'm totally into it!! 👌
This was really interesting Claire. You're right about smelling more after excercising or deep breathing. I've been using Aromatherapy Associates oils recently and my ability to pick out notes has increased immensely. 👃
Ahh, that's interesting! I think oils are great for training your nose to be able to determine certain notes. Thank you so much for watching, very glad that you enjoyed the video! 💕
I am so glad I found your channel Claire. This type of information is scarce online. Thank you for doing this research and sharing it with us inquiring minds.
This was brilliant. Loved all the facts. The nerd in me danced round the room. I think I have a primal fear of anosmia because of how much I love perfume
Thank you! 🥰 I know, totally the same with me, I think it would be really quite depressing to not be able to smell. I love food too and I would hate for it to be bland and tasteless. Thanks for watching ❤️
My husband was so dubious about this, I admit the methodology is a bit weird but I don't know how else this could be tested, but this kind of science is really not my area... 😊
This was fun and interesting! I've spent much of my life not being appreciative of my sense of smell. It is such a gift. Such a wonderfully enriching sense! I cherish it now.
Yes, it scents really enrich life, I think everything would be dull and drab without a sense a smell. It's definitely something to be cherished and appreciated, you are totally right! 👍
Snap, my husband struggles to determine when food is burning or that he's accidentally put plastic in the oven 😂 honestly, it's happened more than once 🤦♀️
Very interesting i learned something. When i was pregnant especially during first trimester i hate any smell good or bad, perfumes or food, during my pregnancy i dont use my perfumes, i use them again after i gave birth💕💕
I think this is how it is for a lot of people! So glad you could enjoy them again after the birth! I have heard some people say they no longer enjoy the same perfumes afterwards too! 🥰
@@dr.claire.perfume I enjoy exposing my brain to different things and with my love of Psychology and the Brain 🧠 and my Love 😍 of Fragrances, 👃 it’s a match made in Heaven! 😇😇😇 🥰🥰🥰 🧠🧠🧠 👃👃👃
My smelling ability was super when I was pregnant 😅 and I'm always the first to be able to smell something strange at my workplace 😅 the question I do have it's why we can't smell some fragrances sometimes. And coffee beans do not work for me 😅 thanks for the video !
Smell receptors I guess if you mean particular fragrances all the time? Otherwise olfactory fatigue or other smells that activate the same receptors perhaps? 🥰
Yey! Iceland ! 🤣 Rotten Fish... i have gone to where they hang their fish to dry.. not the most pleasant thing in the world, but i am used to that smell coz we have dried and fermented fish in the Philippines.. Here in Iceland they also have Skata, which is basically fermented flat fish that they eat during i think Jan-Feb. i cannot even describe how the smell is, but all i know is that it stinks the whole Building and stays in your clothes forever 😂 the taste is like eating or drinking acetone 😵, but if you mix it with mashed potatoes, lotsa butter, and eat with rye bread, it’s tolerable. I love discovering a country’s culture through their food ... Anyway, i’ll continue watching ... 😂
I am really not a fan of fishy fish so this sounds like my nightmare... Interesting to hear about though. I feel like the UK doesn't appreciate fish very much, other than in fish and chips. Most of our shellfish gets sold to mainland Europe, which is crazy! I love crab 🦀, mussels, cockles and prawns.
@@dr.claire.perfume i looooove the smell of fish.. and seaweed... somethimes it can be tooooo much and really stinky... but that whiff in the morning ... ahhhh !!!! I enjoyed that a lot when we traveled the ring road last time.. when we were in the eastern side of the country ☺️
Love this kind of info. It gets my previous life as a psychology student interested. 😊 I can definitely vouch for the change in pregnancy! I already can't stand the smell of salad cream (which my husband loves and has a LOT) but when I was pregnant it was unbearable! I literally couldn't be in the same room as the stuff! 🤢 Thanks for sharing these interesting facts! Xxx
Ooh salad cream is a weird one at the best of times. My mum is very snobby about salad cream, she will only have mayonnaise. I never knew there was anything to be snobby about with salad cream! 😂
The anosmia is one of the scariest things about COVID to me--which, on the one hand I've worried has felt a little bit silly or shallow... but as you say here, smell is such an essential and important part of the human experience! The idea of losing your sense of smell indefinitely or possibly having it permanently altered is just sort of terrifying, and it's been no small part of why I've been incredibly cautious over the past year and a half. (Just 2 more weeks until my second shot, though! Almost home free.)
Oh that's fab! I am just concerned by the new variants out there, I keep urging my parents to be cautious. I can't imagine losing my sense of smell entirely. It must be so worrying and disorienting. Smell adds a lot of colour and joy to people's lives, they just often don't realise just how much until it is gone. Thanks for watching ❤️
Interesting, but at least some people can smell when they're asleep! My mother would wake up to certain smells like chocolate cooking, so we had to make sure to cook things with minimal smell while she was sleeping.
Aah! That's really interesting! I guess the smell receptor part of the brain perhaps gets downgraded so that you are less sensitive whilst asleep maybe? So perhaps it is not that it is entirely turned off, just turned way down? Or maybe your mother was a super sniffer?! Some people have much stronger senses of smell than others. Thanks for watching and for your interesting comment ❤️
Fantosmia... now that is something... I’d be Smelling fairies and ghosts ? I dunno why those 2 popped in my mind... maybe the word fantosma .. 😂 But mannnn... phantom smells...
I’m here watching this now and wow...it’s interesting and informative. When you said ten million l was like wow 😳..I knew the dogs had very good smell receptors l had no clue it was in billions. Let me finish watching.
Thanks. I really enjoyed making it. I do wonder how to get these types of videos seen by anyone other than my subscribers! I wasn't sure how to tag it to make it more visible... I guess perfume RU-vid is centred around hauls and declutters. It's nice to branch out sometimes but I don't think the RU-vid algorithm makes that easy or rewards it! 😘
great video as always❤️ so that’s the reason why we need stronger and heavier perfume in the fall & winter...plus I found it funny when my cat sniffed me quite a long time with its nose moving a lot when i had a surgery, our pets know us better and we can’t keep secrets from them😅😂
I bet! I think loss of taste / smell is a really depressing thing that tends to get overlooked as just something minor, but cutting off any pleasure that you can get from food or smell is actually pretty major for wellbeing.
Thank you Claire. When you mentioned smell and pregnancy you reminded me of how much l couldn’t stand the smell of onions when l was pregnant 🤣🤣🤣 l can also relate with the smell and memory point. All this info is very informative.
New to your channel 😜 Science and perfume. What an amazing idea. 10m receptors 😱 does that mean we can spot the differences between all the Aventus clones? I think the North East like Iceland have high tolerances from the pungent smells. I'm dubious of the t-shirt things. They always sound like they are conducted by fetishists, each to their own of course... But how big are the samples? Are their control tshirts? Maybe the smell of Daz can trigger a reaction? Emotions like fear and sadness are so ridiculously subjective and personal. And surely the films would trigger completely different responses. And interpreting body language is not exact and individual? Why didn't they test their hormone levels wouldn't that he more accurate. I think a reputable scientist like your good self should do proper experiments. Anyways 🤣 I'm glad after smelling Nova my nose would recover after a month. Also 😊 amazing video mate, we are lucky to have you here you know. You're one of a kind and exceptionally awesome
New to my channel 🤣 yeah yeah... I think this was my first sciencey video. People really seemed to like it... I love the t shirt study, but I agree, it's not the best is it, it's full of holes... There's a reason why psychology studies aren't well regarded by the rest of the scientific community 😂 I know you say you aren't scientific but I think you missed your calling. I'd love to see you question a certain person about his studies. 😉
I am not sure of the level of detail that you are wanting or even whether I am answering what you want to know, I am also not an expert, but... Fragrance is a volatile mix of light and heavy mass odour chemicals in a carrier liquid to stabilise and preserve them, most commonly ethanol (alcohol). In order for us to smell perfume, odour molecules need to enter the air, the perfume is warmed by the skin and the energy given by the warming means that the molecules enter the air. The same happens, but more quickly, with ethanol, so the preservative is lost when the perfume is sprayed almost instantaneously. Odour chemicals are more unstable when the are not in ethanol so over a short space of time they may break down. Perfume fixatives are also used in formulations to prolong the longevity of the perfume but clearly the heavier notes will last longer as they are less volatile. Also your skin oils may also influence the stability of perfumes on skin. Oils may help it to "stick" better and may act as a kind of natural fixative. Dry skins don't have as much of these oils so perfumes will have shorter longevity.
I can smell eaven when i sleep Few times early in the morning i get awake because of the smell of cigarette.(i hate smoking) I went out to look and my neighbor was going out of his apartment with a cigarette on
@@dr.claire.perfume Oh haha yes PhD is what I was referring to here rather than an MD. Glad I stumbled upon your channel. Notifications are now turned on for me. You also seem to be a history person as well.
I wouldn't have said so, depends on personal taste maybe? I guess it may mask natural smells slightly though, which evolutionarily speaking, might cause changes in selection. Thanks for watching!
That about the nose shutting down was interesting. Because when I think of it in my dreams I dreamt about tastes, sights but never ever that I can remember how it smelled in my dreams! I would also have loved to see the womens reactions when they smelled a tshirt of men watching adult movies
My husband finds that study unbelievable. It is a bit of an abstract way to test the theory. I don't think the other feelings were tested the same way! You can smell a teeny-tiny bit when asleep but it's majorly reduced. I also don't remember smelling anything in dreams...
