As part of the project, more than four dozen 6th graders were instructed to place rose-scented fragrance sticks on the desk where they studied their schoolwork and to place another rose-scented fragrance stick on the stand next to the bed where they slept at night. [...] The results, according to the study, indicated ‘a significant increase in learning success’ in the students who studied and slept with the same scent.
— Read more in Fragrance and deep sleep combo found to significantly boost learning at Slashgear, or see the original study How odor cues help to optimize learning during sleep in a real life-setting at Nature.
30% increased learning retention is pretty impressive. Guess we should all go back to signature scents…. Today I am in Rose de Petra which is a very nice incense rose, which shows no tendency to make me sneeze the way some rose and some incense frags do. Not sure I would want to wear this all the time, tho.
It really is! But no idea if it was a perfectly executed study.
Hurray for rose!
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I shared this with my students after reading the whole article (but skimming over the analysis bits, admittedly). A few were quite intrigued! Thanks for posting this.
Oh fun — maybe some of them will try it.