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Just finished an article in "Elle" magazine (U.S. edition) that claims certain fragrances influence the way we perceive qualities in people that have nothing to do with scent.
For example, men asked to guess a woman's weight are influenced by the perfume she's wearing. With one perfume in particular (I really need to remember the name so I can adjust my ice cream consumption) the average guess was as much as 12 pounds under the woman's real weight, among men who could guess fairly accurately the weight of a woman wearing no perfume or one of several different ones.
Women weren't fooled by fragrances when asked to guess the weight of other women; we must be too used to evaluating ourselves and the competition.
For example, men asked to guess a woman's weight are influenced by the perfume she's wearing. With one perfume in particular (I really need to remember the name so I can adjust my ice cream consumption) the average guess was as much as 12 pounds under the woman's real weight, among men who could guess fairly accurately the weight of a woman wearing no perfume or one of several different ones.
Women weren't fooled by fragrances when asked to guess the weight of other women; we must be too used to evaluating ourselves and the competition.