Now that's what I like to hear!sleepyred wrote:Next time I noticed, my husband was getting ready for work - did not even hear his alarm!
I never travel without it--some hotel rooms are awful!sleepyred wrote:I am going out of town to the beach and last time (we went with my sister's family) we were in an yucky smelling basement room - now I won't have to worry about musty odors when I travel!
I think that's the difference between synthetic smells and natural aromatics. Essential oils are so expensive compared to synthetics (not to mention the relatively limited selection of natural smells--no fruits and few flowers) that virtually every product with a smell is synthetic. Your husband probably hasn't experienced very many EOs. Many people find synthetics to be irritating and not very satisfying. I've had several people with multiple chemical sensitivity (who could not stand synthetic smells) do very well on the pur-sleep system.sleepyred wrote:P.S. - on another note - my husband literally hates going into stores with scented odors and he loves the pur-sleep system! When I said I was going to participate in this trial - he rolled his eyes. Now he's wondering what I'm mixing next.....He said to give his thumbs up as well! He is wondering if you might try to develop something with a cinnamon smell.
The sense of smell is different from other senses for several reasons. There are some 10 million olfactory receptors. Unlike every other sense, the smell receptor neurons are in direct contact with the external environment. Also, olfactory neurons are directly connected with the higher parts of the brain and limbic system, the emotional centers of the brain. They are single, unbranched neurons that completely bypass the brain stem. As a result, our reactions to smell highly emotional and happen even at levels below conscious detection limits. The perception of pleasant smells also results in a cascade of other responses that result in very quick physiological (physical) relaxation, so it's not merely emotional (as shown through EEGs, MRIs, etc.).
In any event, the human nose can distinguish some 10,000 different smells. We can certainly tell the difference between natural aromatics (which typically consist of hundreds or thousands of different types of aromatic molecules) and synthetics (which typically consist of just a handful of molecules).
As for cinnamon, that's not on the radar screen. Cinnamon is highly stimulating--it really gets my heart racing--not the kind of thing that would work well for sleep. At least in my opinion.
