How to use Scent?

Now that you’ve considered what you’re hearing, it’s time to think about what you’re smelling as you try to decompress:

• Smelling lavender helps you relax (it also encourages you to be more trusting of others), so dig out that lavender potpourri pillow you got as a gift, it’s too useful to languish at the back of your closet.
• The scent of vanilla, jasmine, lemon, mango and orange are also a good stress-busters—and while sometimes you can’t add odours to a space, you can usually suck on hard candies of particular flavours and thereby add scents to your world.
• Eating comfort foods is relaxing, so any smells associated with those tastes are likely to reduce how stressed you feel.
• You may have a scent that you associate with relaxing because of your life experiences and if you do, you should add it to the air as you try to relax. For example, if you had a great time relaxing with your grandmother on her front porch and that porch was encircled by rose vines, you likely learned to associate the smell of roses with relaxation—so making the space where you want to de-frazzle smell like roses is a good idea.