Cleopatra was said to soak the sails of her ships in her perfume; that way the scent of cypress reed and laurel would float sweetly ahead down the Nile. You would smell her ship long before you saw the shimmer of its silver oars jumping off the water. A blue lotus breeze always preceded her. She would bathe in milk and honey that had been infused with roses and her servants would oil her body with cinnamon, myrrh, and cardamom.
This was a powerful tool that she used to bring two of the most powerful men in the world under her thrall...
Smell is the strongest sense for direct memory recall. Researchers have confirmed that scent and emotion are stored as one memory.
It is the sense that can most quickly and directly stimulate arousal -surprisingly before sight and even touch. And researchers have confirmed that scent and emotion are stored as one memory.
Learn to harness the potent power of scent with us on February 10th, just in time for Valentine's Day...
