What could be more intimate and powerful than the scent of a memory? Familiar and personal, it's the one that reassures, makes you smile, leaves you nostalgic, or the one that soothes your heart. In each case, the emotion is linked to the scent, whether of the madeleine or of the mother: we speak of olfactory memory. Here, Élhée has chosen to call on the evocative power of baby perfume, to weave ever closer the bonds of the mother-child relationship.
CONTENTS :
- Olfactory memory or the sensation of emotions
- Smells and childhood memories
- Baby perfume, a sensory delicacy
- Eau de soin Élhée, a natural fragrance for babies and their mothers
- The importance of smells in children's sensory development
Olfactory memory, or the sensation of emotions
Olfactory memory is the memory that retains every scent that is important because of its strength, recurrence or association with a person or a significant event. Olfactory memory is therefore rich in emotion.
It is also undoubtedly the most lasting and powerful. Recalling a happy olfactory memory has a calming power that can be measured in the slowing of the heartbeat and the rhythm of breathing.
Why this particularity? Perhaps because the olfactory cortex is interwoven with both the region of instinctive emotions (amygdala) and that of memory (hippocampus).
Smells and childhood memories
Particularly stimulated during childhood, our olfactory memory records certain scents that will always bring back the same memories, throughout our lives. Your grandparents' house, your cuddly toy, the fields around your home, Dad's aftershave, Mom's perfume... these are all indelible emotional scents.
Directly linked to the brain, the sense of smell creates a bridge between past and present. Like a true sensory and temporal voyage, olfactory memory offers you the possibility of being, by thought, where you would have liked to be. From your mother's womb to your grandmother's kitchen, scents suspend time for the better.
If the sense of smell is sometimes underestimated, childhood odors are real gateways to a happy past.
In babies, the sense of smell is one of the very first senses acquired. Already in the mother's womb, between the 8th and 11th weeks of pregnancy, the receptors and brain area linked to odors develop. However, it's not until the 7th month that baby's first olfactory experiences take place.
Baby perfume, a sensory delicacy
A baby's smell is unique. For its mother, it's undoubtedly the most intoxicating and addictive of all. But there are other, gentler, natural scents that can offer your child a real moment of well-being.
That's why baby perfume should be alcohol-free, delicately scented and used in subtle touches. In fact, wouldn't it be great to use the same perfume for baby as for you, Mum?
Eau de soin Élhée, a natural fragrance for babies and their mothers
At Élhée, we've always focused on the healthiness and sensoriality of our baby products. Today, anti-colic bottles, learning cups and physiological teats echo our new natural milk water.
Developed from natural extracts, water and emulsified olive oil, eau lactée Élhée respects the most sensitive skin and can be used from birth. This unique composition, in line with the demands of Clean Beauty, has enabled us to imagine an innovative texture, directly inspired by mother's milk.
White musk and clementine, the soft, fresh notes of our eau de soin combine delicacy, tenderness, emotion and lightness in an eau de senteur for baby to share with mom.
Baby perfume and its benefits
The first scent registered in your baby's sensory catalog is yours, the scent of your neck and chest. It reassures him and puts a smile on his little face every time we meet.
Gradually, others join it: the milk he drinks, the cuddly toy he sleeps with, and also his bottle, a transitional and intimate object par excellence.
Because childhood is the period during which olfactory memory is most enriched, giving your baby a fragrance is also helping to create additional memories that will accompany him for the rest of his life. Like Proust's madeleine, Eau de soin Élhée acts as a real comfort, directly and forever linked to childhood memories.
On the constancy of smells and childhood
A child's first three years are the foundation of a lifetime. During this period, baby needs points of reference and stability to grow and blossom in confidence and serenity. A change of perfume - yours or his - can be a disturbance, since it's through this - among other things - that baby finds his bearings in his environment.
Used regularly, Eau de Senteur for Babies has a reassuring and soothing emotional impact, even beyond your presence.
The importance of smells in children's sensory development
The world is made up of many different smells. The smell of your skin, the smell of your baby, the smell of food, milk, flowers, paper, wind, toys... While your child will naturally become familiar with them, it's important to name them as early as possible and encourage baby to discover them.
How to awaken baby's sense of smell?
From the moment of birth, guided by the smell of his mother already present in his olfactory memory, baby is able to crawl towards his mother's breast. We also know that infants orient themselves more easily towards pleasant smells, or those they know.
When your child joins the nursery, you may be asked to bring a cuddly toy or T-shirt with your scent on it. During the daycare period, it will reassure your child.
To accompany your child as he discovers new things, we've used every element of his daily life as a support: from the liniment for his toilet to the purée in his potty, not forgetting his skin care water and his very own baby perfume.
And because olfaction reaches its full potential around the age of 5, think of a scent lottery: coffee capsules or small yoghurt pots emptied, cleaned, filled and resealed can be used to create a round of scents for baby to discover.
Olfactory communication
"Se mettre au parfum", "Ne pas pouvoir sentir quelqu'un", "Avoir le nez creux"... so many expressions linked to the nose and sensations. Just as one good smell reassures, another warns: it's all a question of message.
By way of illustration, the smell of a human being, your baby or you, is made up of thousands of molecules subject to numerous variations. Body odours can therefore play a definite communicative role, just as your environment abounds in olfactory signals - cut grass, coffee, rain - often ignored, but all the same capable of influencing the way you feel about your day.
The power of maternal fragrance
So, part of the incredible mother/child bond lies in the power of olfactory memory. Researchers from the journal Science Advances have shown that babies are more likely to smile at an unfamiliar woman if she carries their mother's scent.
Olfactory memory and baby fragrance form an indestructible bond, despite the passage of time and the passing of years. Imbued with naturalness, gentleness and sensitivity, Eau de soin Élhée helps you create precious, everlasting memories with your child.
Les biberons Élhée accompagneront votre bébé de la naissance jusqu'à 24 mois et plus, pour lui permettre une parfaite autonomie, sans risque de casse.
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