Smell Like A Champion

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Could how you smell affect your chances of winning?

Freestyle skiing champion, Michelle Roark thinks it does, which is why she's developed a line of perfume blends.

The skier, who is two classes away from a chemical engineering degree from the Colorado School of Mines, says "it's scientifically proven that smell is closest to our emotions and our memories."

Henry Holland would agree!

The 35 year old has created and is currently selling six natural scents from her Phi-nomenal fragrance line that are all based on emotional reactions.

For the 2006 Olympics, Michelle created the natural perfume Confidence. The description says the fragrance:

Uniquely capturing confidence and energy in a firecracker scent that will attract respect on the mountain top or the busiest city street. Nature's best rose oil from the Valley of the Roses in Bulgaria and equally extravagant Bergamot from Italy are blended with an energizing pink grapefruit twist. The rose oil is the most expensive and sought after in the world — 60,000 petals to create one ounce, 600 petals in each bottle! Last June I personally traveled to Bulgaria to get the rose oil for this Phi-nomenal blend.

This fragrance is for knowing what you want and making it happen.

And for $144 it better make something happen!

Even though Michelle claims there is science behind someone's sense of smell and performance, some scientists are skeptical.

Shocking.

One professor of psychology says scent "is an artifact of the expectation. An athlete believes it's important to success, so therefore it is important."

We believe that.

Almost every athlete has their own type of ritual they perform before a competition, especially if they won big doing it preveiously.

But it's still inneresting.

Do U believe how someone smells affects their winning chances???

[Image via Getty Images.]

Posted: October 16, 2009 at 11:43 am