Rachel Herz | Books & Literature » Non-Fiction
The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell
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The book explores the psychological effects of vision loss and smell loss, highlighting that while patients who lost their vision were initially more traumatized, over time they acclimated more significantly than the patients who had lost their sense of smell—who, a year later, actually reported a more enduring decrease in their quality of life than the patients who had gone blind.
The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell is a very intriguing book about our incredible senses of smell, and how it affects us. Inside, it goes into detail the immense gravity and importance that our olfactory has in our day to day lives, and how it affects things from choosing our spouses to life decisions, and even to our likes and dislikes.