There are problems relating to efforts to describe and exchange information about our senses, particularly in the subtler spheres of olfaction and our sense of taste.

To some extent we overcome our limited vocabulary and have found a reasonably good way to compare subtle taste comparisons and reactions to wine by using terms that still however, require considerable use of our imagination. Communication becomes limited and many of us reduce our efforts by resorting to statements about personal wine preferences only.

Regarding our sense of smell communication is even more difficult. Not only in distinguishing hundreds of different scents and qualities but in finding sufficient words by which to give them identity. Our efforts are at present restricted to relatively few adjectives such as sweet, acrid, musky, citric, heady, harsh, soft, fruity and so on.

Our English language, and possibly others also, have no words to adequately describe scent. Nor have we yet devised a system that allows sensory comparison within this unique sphere that is of vital importance to our well being as well as to our pleasure.

Our hyper-sensitive olfactory sense is in a unique situation. We are faced with an entirely new and extensive range of sophisticated and complex qualities and influences available through commercial perfume production  but with no vocabulary that is capable of assessing and communicating  our reactions.

Professional perfumers of course have met the challenge through a language of chemistry but as consumers we have had to rely upon our purely subjective reactions to the stimulus of aromatics and relied upon our own discrimination in choice of quality.

However this is changing with the developing science of osmics or osmology. In therapeutic science aromatherapists are sure of the employment of the limited natural range of  essential oils and aromas in assisting physical and psychological conditions.

We will need a greatly extended means of classification of the literally thousands of artificially produced non-therapeutic scents that have flooded the cosmetic market.  This becomes more important as analysis shows many chemicals in their use are actually injurious to our health.

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It is a sad testament to the powerful destruction that can be caused by indiscriminate use of chemicals without prior full investigation. This will continue to happen as long as we allow the creators of these chemicals to continue dictating to scientists- scientists who should be impartial in their tests and should be alerting us to dangers of industry rather than protecting vested interests by preserving the status quo. Artificial chemical scents and air fresheners are now banned in the workpla

Although laboratory tests may have demonstrated that the fumes from peppermint or thyme oil, for example, have the effect of destroying disease bacteria and microbes in other creatures, when it comes to human reaction there is an additional complex matter to take into account and that is the psychological responses of the individual. This factor demands that a degree of flexibility is considered in seeking to prescribe the appropriate healing oil.

When using this wonderful natural tonic and elixir as a direct inhalant in preparing for meditation, there is no need to persuade yourself to take deep slow breaths of its perfume. This will tend to occur naturally. You will feel an almost immediate sense of upliftment, enough to call it a perfume that is ‘heavenly’.

A few minutes of meditation experience may seem simple, beautiful, inspiring or produce various reactions but certainly you will feel soothed by having related more intimately to the energies of nature that created a living flower. It would afterwards seem natural to be more aware and appreciative of the importance of beauty, affection and peace in your life, as a result.

There are many different types of massage oils are available for consumers to select for personal use. These are chosen mainly for personal appeal and in response to general marketing. It is advisable to check that the base oil is a natural plant source and not a mineral one. To this basic oil the strongly perfumed essential oils are added.

We also know the powerful affect perfumes have upon our memory when we catch a scent that touches on previous experience or reminds us of a particular person, sometimes causing us to be reminded of something long ago.Perfumes also strongly influence our emotional moods and mental states.

Since publication of Buck and Axel’s work in 1991 when their findings attracted considerable attention and were cited great numbers of times in research journals there has been increasing scientific interest in the subject along with intensifying public interest in aromas and aromatherapy.

To exude a sweet body odour is a natural feminine desire not only as an expression of personal nature but also as a male attractant in relationships. The sexual scales are well known in culture of the senses and body scent plays a large part in physical compatability. As the male scent is generally towards the strong, woody keynotes that increases women attraction to a man, so the softer, floral keynotes or feminine scent of a woman is naturally satisfying to the male.

Although both sexes may happily enjoy the aromas of their opposite sex, each also has a need to gain confidence by using their own natural personal choice of scent for their own personality expression and satisfaction.