ReviewScience advances2024
Nature and human well-being: The olfactory pathway.
Review in Science advances, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.
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32 citing papers in PubMed.
- Promoting relaxation through essential oil-enhanced digital hypnotherapy: A randomized controlled trial.Psychological medicine · 2026Trial
- Smelling Wellness: Associations Between Botanic Garden Scentscapes and Human Health Gains.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Trial
- Forest terpenes and stress: Examining the associations of filtered vs. non-filtered air in a real-life natural environment.Environmental research · 2025Trial
- Atmospheric Aerosol Neurotoxicity and Parkinson's Disease: Mechanisms and Perspectives.Journal of biochemical and molecular toxicology · 2026Review
- Identification of Key Aroma Compounds Associated with Olfactory Perception and Pleasantness in Processed Ginseng Products: Insights from GC-MS, Flavoromics, and Computational Modeling.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- From freshness to preservation: insights into processing and storage impacts on purple passion fruit volatilome.Journal of the science of food and agriculture · 2026Article
- Cross-modal impacts of olfactory perception and individual differences in emotional responses to odors modulate hedonic evaluations of visual scenes.Chemical senses · 2026Article
- Ecosystem structure influences human health outcomes as the basis for green prescriptions.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Associations of forest vs. urban environmental exposure with well-being and nasal microbiome composition: An exploratory pilot study.Environmental research · 2026Article
- Bonded Green Exercise: A One Health Framework for Shared Nature-Based Physical Activity in the Human-Dog Dyad.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2026Article
- Smelling the romantic partner's natural body odor increases psychological and autonomic but not cortisol stress responses.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Suprathreshold non-volatile flavour perception is associated with multiple species rather than any single species via bacterial metabolism.Journal of oral microbiology · 2026Article
- Breastfeeding, bonding, and olfaction: unlocking the potential of mother-infant odour exchange.EBioMedicine · 2026Review
- The interactive influence mechanism of visual and olfactory stimuli on college students' preferences for campus green spaces.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Olfactory training in specific anosmia to androstenone and its association with genetic variations of OR7D4.IBRO neuroscience reports · 2025Article
- Birds may represent a useful animal model for studying human mental disorders.Acta neuropsychiatrica · 2025Review
- Demographic and geographical determinants of human olfactory perception of 909 individuals inhabiting 16 regions.iScience · 2025Article
- Greenspace proximity in relation to sleep health among a racially and ethnically diverse cohort of US women.Environmental research · 2025Article
- The scent of mating strategy: sociosexual orientation was associated with olfaction and body odor sniffing behavior in Chinese and American populations.BMC psychology · 2025Article
- Tactile and olfactory stimulation reduce anxiety and enhance autonomic balance: a multisensory approach for healthcare settings.BMC psychology · 2025Article
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Abstract
The world is undergoing massive atmospheric and ecological change, driving unprecedented challenges to human well-being. Olfaction is a key sensory system through which these impacts occur. The sense of smell influences quality of and satisfaction with life, emotion, emotion regulation, cognitive function, social interactions, dietary choices, stress, and depressive symptoms. Exposures via the olfactory pathway can also lead to (anti-)inflammatory outcomes. Increased understanding is needed regarding the ways in which odorants generated by nature (i.e., natural olfactory environments) affect human well-being. With perspectives from a range of health, social, and natural sciences, we provide an overview of this unique sensory system, four consensus statements regarding olfaction and the environment, and a conceptual framework that integrates the olfactory pathway into an understanding of the effects of natural environments on human well-being. We then discuss how this framework can contribute to better accounting of the impacts of policy and land-use decision-making on natural olfactory environments and, in turn, on planetary health.
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