ليش حاسة الشم تخلينا نتذكر ذكريات قديمة ما ندري أنها موجودة حتى، وتأثر على مشاعرنا ورغباتنا وغرائزنا بكل هاي القوة؟

By David Rijckaert III

The perfume maker,
By Rodulf Ernst

The sense of smell captivates our memory, appetite, and sexual drive more than any other sense. It is the most visceral of them because it directly activates our older, more animalistic, parts of our brains. It penetrates deep to the centers of emotion, sex, memory, and hunger: the amygdala, the hypothalamus, and the hippocampus.

إنّ قدرة حاسة الشم على تملُّكنا بطريقة بدائية وغريزية تأتي من كونها تفعّل أجزاءً قديمةً جدًا من أدمغتنا نتشاركها مع الكثير من الحيوانات (حتى البسيطة منها)، ولهذا لها سلطانٌ على الذاكرة والجوع والشهوة بشكلٍ لا تماثله أيُّ حاسةٍ أُخرى.

Scents literally HACK our brains

Pheromones, and other weird things

Male hormones, perfumes, and Musk (not Elon Musk)

Odors have a power of persuasion stronger than that of words, appearances, emotions, or will. The persuasive power of an odor cannot be fended off, it enters into us like breath into our lungs, it fills us up, imbues us totally. There is no remedy for it.

He who ruled scent ruled the hearts of men.

The neuroscience of olfaction

A "simple" sketch of the olfactory system

O stands for Olfactory
N stands for Nucleus

My genius is in my nostrils

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Thanks to the demolition job performed by the intellectuals, the society is increasingly "value free"—that is, it no longer believes in much of anything or takes anything seriously. The original élan, the moral core, and the guiding ideal of the civilization are now a distant memory.

- William Ophuls

Even the skeptical historian develops a humble respect for religion, since he sees it functioning and seemingly indispensable, in every land and age.

- Will and Ariel Durant