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Every smell scientist I spoke to for this story echoed some version of this sentiment: that smell is under­appreciated and misunderstood, and most people fail to recognize how integral it is to our experience of pleasure, our emotional lives, and even, on a fundamental level, our identity. But there are many studies demonstrating profound links between anosmia (the MARCH FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS T-Shirt But I will love this clinical term for smell loss) and clinical depression. One such study, recounted in Rachel Herz’s The Scent of Desire, compared the psychological effects of vision loss and smell loss, and yielded startling results: While patients who lost their vision were initially more traumatized, over time they acclimated more significantly than the patients who had lost their sense of smell—who, a year later, actually reported a more enduring decrease in their quality of life than the patients who had gone blind.

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WHY DOES SMELL MATTER SO MUCH? Sandeep Robert Datta, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of neurobiology at Harvard Medical School, describes the MARCH FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS T-Shirt But I will love this olfactory system as “ancient and primal,” entangled in a constant “pas de deux with our amygdala.” It’s the only sense with a direct link to our limbic system, the part of the brain responsible for our core emotional processing—often called the lizard brain, or literally the “nose brain.” Smell is the sense we use to connect to our mothers immediately after birth. The involuntary nature of smell makes it feel more like a force we surrender to rather than a function of agency. It’s something that happens to us.

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