Spritzing on your perfume each day does wonders to help with your mental health. We bet that you didn’t really think about that before. Fortunately, you’re on the right daily track to improving your own mental health benefits by using that good-smelling perfume. Wondering what benefits these are? Let’s take a closer look at each of them below.
Recalls Memories
We’re sure everyone has had the experience of remembering an aunt, grandmother, or friend when you get a whiff of a specific scented perfume. Your senses linked that specific perfume scent to your experience with that person. This experience could be a particular moment in time or just the remembrance of a loved one. Either way, perfume can help you to recall some of the best memories you’ve had and enhance your mood because of those recalled memories.
Calms You Down
There are a ton of perfume scents out there. Some specific ones will have the natural effect of relaxing the body. These include clary sage, grapefruit, lavender, rose, frankincense, and bergamot. Just having a slight hint of any one of these ingredients, your perfume can surround you with a calming effect. Since the scent sticks with you all day long, you can enjoy the calming experience throughout the entire day. You’ll likely even calm those around you down with your perfume scent.
Improves Your Concentration
Did you know that certain scents can actually help to enhance your concentration? It’s true and there are many to choose from, so you’ll be sure to find a scent that you love to wear. The most popular include peppermint, rosemary, basil, cypress, and lemon. You can even find these scents within essential oil products. This makes it completely possible to create your own scent by mixing up different essential oil products to achieve the scent and health benefits that you desire.
Boosts Confidence
When we have on that perfect outfit with the right perfume, we feel like we can take on the world. Perfume is one of the many additions you can add to your daily routine to help boost your confidence. When you smell good, you feel good. Plus, you won’t have to worry about any nasty body odor scents throughout the day. The best part is that you can pick a perfume scent that suits your personality or mood for the day.
Enhanced Libido
An important part of mental well-being is the physical connection you feel with your significant other. Scents that include lavender, civet, vanilla, musk, and pumpkin all work to increase the libido of the user and the ones that surround them. So, if you want to get your partner in the mood, spritzing a perfume that has at least one of these ingredients can assist you in your task. Plus, you can enjoy your own enhancement in libido every time you wear your perfume.
Decreases Fear
It’s not uncommon for people to experience fear throughout their lives. Whether it’s a big presentation at work or getting the results to a test you took, fear can create unruly anxiety in the body. By using a perfume that has clary sage, grapefruit, lemon, jasmine, orange, or chamomile, you can naturally put your body at ease from fear. It’s a known fact that our emotions are highly linked to our sense of smell. When your body smells these calming scents, it will work to calm your nerves and let you get back in control.
Reduces Depression
Depression can affect the emotions of the body significantly. To help combat these bad effects on the body, you’ll want to include a perfume that has lemon, lavender, jasmine, neroli, sandalwood, chamomile, orange, bergamot, or rose in it. All of these scents are shown to decrease the effect that depression has on the human body. This also works well for helping those who have depression around you. By simply allowing your perfume to radiate the space between you and the depressed person, you can help to decrease their mental health problems.
As you can see, there are many mental health benefits that you can gain from wearing perfume on a regular basis. There are many different scents out there to choose from. We highly suggest that you have a few different perfumes on standby so that you can utilize one that fits your mood for the day. There is no reason you shouldn’t be switching up the type of perfume that you use on a regular basis to accompany your mental health needs.
Brittany Waddell is a contributing writer and media specialist for Aromatique.She often produces content for a variety of fragrance blogs.
I love wearing my signature perfume because it simply makes me feel good and confident about myself. And after knowing all these mental health benefits accompanying it was the cherry on top! The most enlightening benefit to which I can’t agree more was the association of a specific perfume with the memory of a loved one. And the other psychological benefits are also worth knowing so thank you for sharing this. The next time I wear my perfume and get ready to start my day, I’ll be remembering all these benefits and give myself a mood and happiness boost!
Hi Aman,
When I published this guest post it was long before anyone had ever heard of Covid 19. It’s at least as relevant these days as we all strive for health and wellness in 2021. Thanks for stopping by!
Wishing you a year a healthy and safe year ahead,
Erica
Didn’t think before that there could be any benefits of perfume. In fact, my aunt had allergies using some strong perfumes and so she had to stop. I still use perfumes though but not regularly. This is an awesome post on the mental benefits. Who would’ve thought that it helps the libido. I have a question though, is it okay for one to combine different perfumes together when going out?
Hi Henderson,
This article was a guest post if you hadn’t noticed but I am also a believer in the health benefits of fragrance. I’ve experienced it myself and know many others who have also experienced the positive effects of fragrance. If your aunt developed an aversion to perfume then clearly it was a good decision to stop.
In answer to your question, it is not only okay to layer fragrances it is a common practice. I do it all the time and have my own recipes that I adore. Layering is like your own customized scent without having to pay thousands of dollars to a perfumer to create one.
Cheers,
Erica
Hi
I can understand the positive benefits that scent can have on your life and that the right scent at the right time can do wonders. It is amazing what our olfactory glands have on our memory but I can see the opposite happening as well. A familiar scent can lead you to recall memorise of a lost love, which could lead to depression and unhappiness. No emotion is positive or negative but what we do with the emotion is important.
What do you do if the scent does the exact opposite?
Thanks
Antonio
Hi Antonio,
I can tell that you already know how scent is so linked to memory and emotion. Scent and memory are intrinsically entwined. Both good memories and bad are recorded in our brains and we react to the remembered scent accordingly. There’s so much research yet to be done on exactly how it all works.
The thing about fragrance is that no one is forcing you to wear it. I can’t imaging anyone wanting to smell a scent that reminded them of something sad or painful. There’s no point in that. Perfume should be a respite and a source of pleasure not torture.
Erica
Wearing a fragrance can work for and against you. I remember that years ago when I was wearing one cologne I even got some type of allergy from it. After swapping it for another one I was feeling great.
Also, I found that wearing different scents during different seasons of the year, or on special occasions has an effect on how I feel, Some, like Jimmy Choo Man, seem to make me feel fresher and ready to tackle the day..
Trying different scents is probably the best way to go.
Thanks for sharing this article by Brittany Wadddell.
Best regards,
Igor
Hi Igor,
Some people need to be especially careful about having allergic reactions to fragrance. That’s why it’s always a good idea to start with a sample and wear it for a few days to make sure that you not only love it on you but also that you’re not allergic.
Thanks for dropping by!
Erica
Hi Erica!
Besides boosting our confidence, a good perfume can benefit us at an emotional and neurological level.
I personally compare perfumes with colors. As it occurs when we dress, we can enhance our mood with the colors we choose, so it also occurs with perfumes. We can project our mood through the many different kinds of smells.
Selecting a fragrance doesn’t only have an effect upon us, but it also provokes people around us to respond.
Being conscious of all the positive implications will encourage us to be sensitive with our choice.
Hi Henry,
I agree that the colors we choose to wear tend to be a manifestation of our emotional state and mood. Perfumers understand this too and the color of the packaging is reflection of the mood the perfumer wishes to convey.
Have a great rest of the week-end!
Erica
Thanks, Erica, for sharing the benefits of wearing perfume. Certain scents and perfumes definitely bring back some of my childhood memories and events, making me feel nostalgic. I’ve never thought much about it but the article is absolutely right; it’s like a brain exercise which is pretty amazing.
I often use essential oils when I am working at home. Some, such as lavender and eucalyptus help relax me and others, like peppermint and lemon, help me with my concentration. I’m not sure if you have heard of Muji stores before, when I walk in the scent of essential oils is very calming to me.
I did not know that chamomile can help with fear. I am going to give it a try next time when I feel anxious. 🙂
Hey Nuttanee,
I can’t say that I am familiar with Muji stores but will now be on the look-out. I also love essential oils and believe they have some powerful mental and physical health benefits. There’s a reason people have been using them for thousands of years.
Thanks for stopping in.
Erica
Very interesting post by Ms. Waddell! I hadn’t considered perfume to have health benefits until now. So true about recalling memories, equating smell with memory. It’s interesting to learn that perfume can calm you down. I do like the smell of lavender so this is good to know. As far as concentration goes, I like peppermint. Confidence and libido are important things to have, and on the contra side fear and depression reduction is great.
Hi Pentrental,
Fragrance is definitely not going to help someone with serious mental health issues obviously, but it can be a mood lifter. Thanks for popping over to comment!
Hey Erica,
Most of us use fragrance in our daily life but who knew that it not only make us smell good but also have mental health benefits.
People have no problem popping a pill when needed all in the name of keeping sound mental health. Medication always has side effects though which can have their own issues. If I could just spray something on to help boost my mood or improve concentration that sounds good to me.
Hi back Extravert1,
Aromatherapy has been around for a long tIme and many swear by It. It certaInly shouldn’t be used as a replacement for your doctor’s prescribed treatment plan but can be used alongside it in cases of more serious mental conditions.
Thank for hoppIng over!
Erica
I love perfumes and always have. I’m a romantic at heart and the scent of perfume seems to just enhance this part of my personality. I’ve honestly never even thought about the fact that certain scents can brighten your mood, boost your confidence, keep you calm and all of the other benefits mentioned. I will have to remember to wear Lovely (my favorite musk perfume) when I want to get something started with my boyfriend LOL
Barbara
Hi Barbara,
Our sense of smell has been assocIated wIth our well-beIng for a long tIme. While research in this area is still ongoing, smell plays roles in our lives of which we may not be aware. If you know that Lovely works to get you (and him) in the mood then I say go for it:)
Erica
I must agree with you on the fact that perfume helps in recalling memory. Recently I was sitting at a park and a girl walked past me and reminded me of my ex. It was such a strong connection that I actually caught up with her and asked the name of the perfume she was wearing. It turned out to be the same perfume my ex always wears.
I’ve never thought about wearing a fragrance for mental health reasons but it’s something to think about.
HI Dhayours,
Well that was a bold move and glad you didn’t send her running off! Hopefully things ended on good terms with your ex or the perfume might have triggered a bad memory.
Scents often remInd me of certaIn people, or just as often cetaIn places. It’s really fascInatIng how that works.
Thanks for stoppIng over.
Erica