Sweet Smell of Success: Simple Fragrance Method Produces Major Memory Boost When a fragrance wafted through the bedrooms of older adults for two hours every night for six months, memories skyrocketed. In fact, participants in this study by neuroscientists from the University of California, Irvine (
Do I remember my organic chemistry class right that scents that smell good are likely cancer causing?
Why would that be? And what do you mean by “scent” in this context? I don’t think the scent of fresh fruit is cancer causing.