Follow Up Friday:Smells like Teen Spirit?
O dear.
Yesterday's post had to do with No. 36: Find a Signature Scent.
Then this morning, thanks to the blog Life in the Boomer Lane, I was alerted to a study in the American Journal of Political Science. The official title is "Assortive Mating Ideology Could Operate through Olfactory Clues". (Huh?)
Basically a study was done that exposed people to the body odor of either "strong conservatives" or "strong liberals". People tended to love the smell of those that had the same political ideologies. And they were leery of those whose political beliefs did not jibe with their own.
Apparently this is not such a groundbreaking study after all.
Way back when:
Bizarre matchmaking: The article from a 1924 edition of Science and Invention magazine recommends smelling your partner's scent via a hosepipe attached to a capsule they are inside. If the smell isn't 'too objectionable', you're a perfect match!
So by choosing Ce Soir ou Jamais as my perfume, am I attracting someone like minded? Repelling people whom I might otherwise have a great deal in common? Attracting political crazies? Maybe this perfume has something to do with my recent neighborly interactions?
I may be meddling with biology here! Consider the consequences.
That perfume I wore back in the 80s? Is that why I am married to the person that I am married to?
Yikes! I don't even remember what perfume I wore. I no longer wear it because I no longer like it. What are the implications?
Could we alter someone's opinion of us just by switching fragrances?
Maybe I should give up a signature perfume and find an assortment that I can wear depending on the occasion.
What would a right wing conservative perfume be?
And the "let's go smoke a few then tie dye some t shirts" perfume?
Wonder what cologne Hitler wore? Ahh...according to this, he refused to wear cologne. Was that so his true political ideas could shine through?
My mind is boggled.
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