Why do you want to feel your partner's clothes when he's not with you?

In love, when your partner goes to work or travel and you stay at home, surely you smile when you feel it on the pillow or sheets, you fall asleep even on their side. Maybe if you do not live together, you like to put something that the other person was using to evoke his scent and feel it more closely.

This happens because The sense of smell is the most primitive sense of the human being, it can not be controlled because odors are always present in the environment, contrary to the sound or the image. Feeling brings a set of sensations, emotions, pleasures and all this represents a state of well-being.

In particular, the smell of the person you love can have different effects. To begin, the familiarity of its smell it transmits security. Feeling protected generates a peace of mind and a peace of mind.

On the other hand, perceive the smell of your partner reduces the level of stressas verified by a study conducted by Columbia University and published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.

Finally, perceive the smell of a loved one in times of stress helps to calm down and react better in the face of adversity or discomfort. All this set of effects explains why we want to feel the clothes of the other when he is absent. It is not addiction, but the way the body reacts to certain stimuli, in this case olfactory.