Scents, Spaces, and Objects
Actively managing how a place or object smells is becoming increasingly accepted and strategicall
Scents
Rosemary and Working Memory in Children (05-12-17)
Moss and Earle tested the effects of smelling rosemary on working memory in children. They found that “Exposure to the aroma of rosemary essential oil can significantly enhance working memory in children. . . . A total of 40 children aged 10 to 11 took part in a class based test on different mental tasks. Children were randomly assigned to a room that had either rosemary oil diffused in it for ten minutes or a room with no scent. . . . Analysis revealed that the children in the aroma room received significantly higher scores than the non-scented room.
In Practice: Scenting Spaces
Coordinating in-use scents with other design elements makes it more likely that design-related go
Orange Scent and Stress
Smell orange, feel less stress
Communicating by Smell (04-17-17)
De Groot, Semin, and Smeets provide additional information about how scents influence how we interact with each other. Since current, generally available, technologies do not support human communication via smells, face-to-face meetings will remain important for the foreseeable future. As de Groot and his team report “Humans use multiple senses to navigate the social world, and the sense of smell is arguably the most underestimated one. An intriguing aspect of the sense of smell is its social communicative function. Research has shown that human odors convey information about a range of
Scents and Sales
The way a store smells influences what shoppers do
Lavender and Rosemary (08-25-16)
Lauren Bussey has studied the effects of smelling either lavender or rosemary on memory function
Smell City
Scents can help sell cities
Scenting to Achieve Desired Objectives
Designers can deploy faint traces of scents to realize project-related performance goals.
Encouraging Hand Washing
Eyes and citrus make a significant difference
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