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The Power of Scent

Thursday, December 11th, 2008

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Scent can be a dominant brand signal as it is the sense most directly connected to emotion and memory. Recent studies have linked increased electrical and metabolic activity in the brain to pleasant odors. According to Daniel Lieberman, an associate professor of psychiatry at George Washington University, odor receptors in the nose are actually brain cells.

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