The ultimate expierience of the combined effects of smell and touch is in a professional aromatherapy treatment. Aromatherapy is used to treat a whole range of conditions and is believed to work on people both physically and psychologically.

The first part of the theory is that when you smell an essential oil, it triggers your limbic system, the part of the brain that controls emotions and stores and retrieves learned memories, and relaxes you. The other part of the theory is that the essential oils are absorbed through the skin, and have medicinal properties which act on the cause of the problem.

Just some of the conditions aromatherapy is used to treat are:

Anxiety, stress or insomnia
Muscular aches and pains
Headaches
Asthma
Eczema
Digestive problems
Menstrual or menopausal problems