Get a whiff of this: Scents can affect thoughts

Aside from body odor, not many people pay attention to the odors that surround them. "There's a lot of research that's begun now, where people are looking at how the environment affects our well-being," said Jeannette Haviland-Jones, of Rutgers University. "We tend to think of ourselves as separate from the environment, but we're not. We create our environment."

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