5 things you didn’t know about smell:

• Research shows the smell of vanilla can reduce anxiety.

• A lavender scent in restaurants makes customers stay longer and spend more money.

• The blind don’t have a more acute sense of smell than you do. They just pay more attention.

• Scents can affect which people you like. We can learn about someone’s personality just by smelling them.

• “Clean” smells promote good behavior. The smell of cookies can make us nicer to one another too.

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