#scent
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Essential Oil Blending: Notes, Ratios, and Getting It Right
Most blending advice is vague to the point of uselessness. Here's the actual chemistry of top, middle, and base notes — the ratios that work, the mistakes that don't, and specific blends worth making.
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Grief and Scent: Why Loss Arrives Through the Nose
Scent encodes loss differently from every other sense. Here's the neuroscience of why a particular smell can bring someone back so completely — and what to do with that.
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Why Scent Goes Straight to Your Memory (And How to Use That)
Of all your senses, only smell bypasses the brain's filtering system entirely. Here's the neuroscience, and what it means for how you use scent in your home.