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With the turn of the year, everyone’s thoughts naturally gravitate to personal change. We want to be better people in the new year, but we also all know that old habits die hard. If, like everyone else, you have set too many goals on too many new years only to find your resolution dropping by month’s end, it might be time to find a new strategy—and a new tool!

In this class, perfumer Lakenda Wallace explores theories around scent’s interaction with human behavioral changes, specifically examining how scent might be leveraged to support habit interruption and behavioral shifts. It has long been theorized that perfumery and aromatherapy can potentially mitigate some of the difficult emotional aspects of change. Olfactory cues thus might provide both a pleasant and a potentially powerful strategy with which to ease the challenges of habit-breaking.

This class will explore these theories, and examine the various ways in which we might utilize the well-documented connection between smell, emotion, and memory to initiate and support the changes we seek. Reviewing the demonstrated effects that certain smells have on physiology, Lakenda will also explore how these brain hacks might work in our everyday lives. Finally, Lakenda will introduce techniques that utilize the imagination and the sense of smell to potentially release emotional triggers and alleviate overwhelm.

Let’s see if scent can help us attain our goals for the new year.

Class requirements: Each attendee is asked to bring three scents to class that are not emotionally connected to any memories, people, or places in their personal history. We recommend that these be essential oils or other easily accessible aromatic materials, preferably of natural origin.