Rachel S. Herz, PhD, is a neuroscientist who researches the psychological science of smell at Alpert Medical School, Brown University, Providence. She is author of Why You Eat What
You Eat: The Science Behind Our Relationship with Food and The Scent of Desire: Discovering Our Enigmatic Sense of Smell. RachelHerz.com
Scent has a direct connection to our emotions because odor, emotion and memory all are processed in the brain’s limbic…
