Psychology of the smell perception

Psychology of the smell perception is the processes connected with the ability of the person to precept and identify the smells. The process of perception of the smell by the person is complicated and has a lot of levels and stages.

Pleasant smells are usually called aromas and not rather pleasant smells are called stink.

Not depending on the mechanisms of the smell perception, there are substances that have identical or rather similar smell but that are fully different by their structure and components.

In dependence on the concentration of the smell the same substance may produce different effect. With the increasing of the concentration of volatile matter the change if the individual perception from neutral to aroma is typical.

The smell effect of some substances very quickly makes the adaptation rise that is loosing the sensation of the smell of this substance. But with the lapse of time the power of the perception decreases rapidly till the person doesn't feel the smell of the concentration.

The mixture of several smells can misrepresent the general appreciation of the aroma. This phenomenon is often used in perfumes during the creation of the aroma compositions to make the new type of perfumes.

As the sense of smell is one of phenomena that helps to get information about the world, it is connected with emotions, that is why some smells get the subjunctive and situational emotional loading.