Do the guys need mogra, a chick’s sweat to get it up?

With a new study claiming guys get turned on by the smell of rotten eggs, iTalk decided to find a connection between smell and libido. A man's erogenous zone is in his gregarious groin, but will it take more than fresh water lilies to turn him on?

Do the guys need mogra, a chick's sweat to get it up?

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"Whenever her father was alone with a dog in a house, he would lean over and smell the skin at the base of its paw. This, he would say, as if coming away from a brandy snifter, is the greatest smell in the world! A bouquet!" When Michael Ondaatje wrote this in the The English Patient, he was indeed referring to our heightened sense of smell, if at a kinkier level, a scent that arouses men to assume a doggie-style position. Not quite? Well, according to a recent study, men sniff in strange places for arousal; sexual or general sadhu levitation. When you say "My eggs are ovulating" instead of the tired "Mein tumhare bachche ki maa banne waali hoon," he might correct you, "You mean, your rotten eggs are ovulating." Phut! End of love story you might think. But, it has only just begun for him.

Among other things, research has proved that women can be turned on by just a few sniffs of a man's sweaty armpits. But what about the man; what arouses him? A recent Cosmopolitan survey on what turns a man on, taken by 30,000 men, did not have a single word about any one of them poking their nose for olfactory orgasms. It was just the other thing poking. So, does that mean, it was poking because the rotten eggs gas was acting up in their brain? It's not her just shampoo-ed hair that's doing the trick or her sweaty workout in the gym. Are men turned on by their own secreted scents they cannot smell?

Mogra, eucalyptus turn guys on

Gaurav Pramanik, Writer
The scent of eucalyptus tickles my testosterones and gets me on a quick high. I have known quite a few of my friends who are drawn to it like cats to catnip.

Aalekh Kapoor, Model
I don't think scent plays an important role in turning me on and even if it does or ever did, I guess I was too busy being turned on to notice what scent it was.
The scent of lemon grass perhaps, or mogra and khus maybe.

Women who work with perfumes, have their say

She picks Vanilla
Sonali Vengurlekar Training Manager for P&G Prestige, Gucci, D&G, Valentino, Lacoste and Escada
Jasmine and vanilla are the most popular, and have been known to be arousing fragrances for men. Since vanilla is a plant that can be eaten, juiced and sniffed, it also doubles up as an aphrodisiac.

Sweat and Last night's perfume
Lippi Lal, Training Manager for Thierry Mugler, Cartier and Azzaro
Men get turned on with all kinds of strange scents (some of which I cant mention here!), but I think I'd pick a cross between a woman's sweat and the the last trails of an oriental perfume. A sort of "night after" morning scent, when you forget to shower, go straight to work and then hit the treadmill at 30kph?

The man who couldn't get it up until he smelt tuberoses

Sexologist Dr Rajan Bhosale, Founder Director of Heart to Heart Counseling Centre
Animals are not aroused by looks. A dog will not get excited if he sees a bitch unless she is in heat, which means, she is emitting the right signals to send the dog republic into a tizzy. Man on the other hand, on his way up the evolution ladder, has lost both, his tail and his sense of smell. He is not easily aroused by aromatic hooks unless they are associated with some emotion he has experienced.

For example, a man might be aroused by the scent of ripe mangoes because he once made love to a woman in a mango orchard. The scent of ripe mangoes thralls him back into her arms and so, it works as an arousing stimulant. I've had a case where a woman complained that her man could not perform until she filled the bedroom with tuberoses because it is that particular scent he has retained from their very first coupling.

How smell and emotion are connected
The connection between our sense of smell and our emotions is founded on the evolution of our brain, where the two are intrinsically linked. Smell and emotion are located in the same network of neural structures, called the limbic system. The ability to experience and express emotion grew directly out of our brain's ability to process smell. Brain imaging studies have shown that when we perceive a scent the amygdale (emotion processing centre) becomes activated and the more emotional our reaction to the scent, the more intense the activation is.