A common trick when showing a house is to bake.

[FDJustin]

Ok, I'm sitting here sorting my notes, and forming up my plan. Trying to get some peripherial presentation keys down, because lord knows I'll otherwise come across as some awkward nobody few strangers will listen to for more than four seconds.

When suddenly I remembered something from house selling tips I picked up from who knows where. "When showing your house, bake cinnamon rolls before people come over. Cinnamon is a smell just about everyone loves, and the smell of fresh baking makes it so people can see themselves living there."

I also read somewhere... On improving brain function; We live in a world often deprived of variety, which makes the brain stagnate. We learn best with novelty, and, in fact, the brain simply works and grows from it even if we aren't learning in the truest sense.

One of the things we are most deprived of is the variety of scent; which itself is a powerful marker for making memories.

Getting to the point: Smell is powerful, but it's not something we can use online. Perhaps if you were advertising food itself, you could show someone sniffing it and taking on that "Oooh yeah, this is going to be good!" expression, in hopes that the person will imagine the same. But you can't do that as part of setting the tone for a general presentation without it being jarring and weird.

But. Does the visuals of a food item invoke the imagination of it's smell in anyone? Even if it doesn't, do the visuals invoke the same emotion that would be tied to the smell?

 

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