Three Candle Aromas With Powerful Benefits
When it comes to memory recall, smell is the strongest of our 5 senses.
Memories are stored in a region of the brain called the hippocampus. This has a pretty big impact in why your sense of smell is most likely to make you recall vivid memories. When you smell something, the sensation travels through your nose, next to the amygdala (which creates emotions) and the hippocampus (where your memories are stored) before ultimately arriving at your thalamus. That means that every smell you perceive passes through the memory and emotion parts of the brain first before you actually smell it.
In addition to inducing nostalgia, scented candles can effectively leverage the power of fragrance to make us feel calmer, happier, and even more productive.
With benefits backed by years of research, here’s a few aromas to work into your self-care routine:


