The Power of Smell | Dr. Tara Swart

Of our five senses, the other four, so for example, the optic nerve has to travel from here all the way around your skull to the occipital lobe because our visual cortexes are here. Interesting. Yeah, but the olfactory bulb, which comes out to the top of our nose, the nerve only goes back about an inch, goes through this like netting area at the top of our nose called the epithelial cells or the epithelium. And then right behind that are the amygdala and hippocampus. and that's why smell is the most emotive sense that we have. So if I ask you what smell most strongly evokes a childhood memory for you, what would you say? Oh man. I'm thinking of like hot chocolate, cookies, baking. I'm thinking of like, you know, Christmas time, something like that. You know, like pumpkin pie, something type of smell like that. Very warm homely. Yeah, yeah, yeah.