That Small Fixture On Our Face

You may have seen the ads: Just spray a bit of human pheromone on your skin, and you're guaranteed to land a date. Scientists have long debated whether humans secrete chemicals that alter the behavior of other people.
TONSURING is a common prarthana by Hindus in many temples.
Thirumalai Devasthanam earns in crores in foreign exchange through human hair.
L_CYSTENE is a chemical that is taken out of human hair and is used in making food items like biscuits,cakes,bread,PIzzas etc.
Many insects and animals release a harmone called PHERMONES( PHRENE+ HARMONE).
To identify this chemical, an organ called VNO( VOMERO NASAL ORGAN )is a must which is present in non humans.
So long the science world was under the impression that human beings
are not possessed of any such organ.
But continuous research in this direction indicates the presence of this phermone in human beings also and that is the main reason for instigation of romantic feeling and sex attraction which is normal in any human being.

It is stated that 90 percent of phermone is being released from the hair of woman folk and perhaps men unknowingly smell the phermone and fall in love.
Babies, who have not developed confounding associations with smells, but seem to respond to pheromone like substances from any mother's areola gland secretions, which cause them to stick out their tongue and suckle.
Samuthrika Lakshana sastra points out that manly nose should project confidence ,a sense of power and sex appeal with sharp edges and stipulated angles. A women’s nose should be persuasive with narrow designer tips. Who can forget Pascal’s sayings “If Cleopatra’s nose had been shorter,the whole face of the earth would have been different”?

The significance of nose does not stop with sharp features and dazzling diamond nose studs.
Deepavali Eve.All the houses are packed with ghee smelling sweets,masala smells from savouries and a special smell of newly packed dresses,and the unique smell of crackers .

A daily wage earner has a stock of costly scents, body sprays ,fragrant soaps.His wife is shocked at his extravagance.When she finds him immersing himself into the drainage pits to remove the block,she realizes the need and longing for fragrance by her husband experiencing nauseating odour from the drains day in and day out.
My cousin is a research scholar in Organic Chemistry is employed in a famous Fragrance Corporation in France.You may wonder his designation is ‘Nose’.He very often talks about blending various mixtures of perfumes,the work that may take months or years before he arrives at the exact combination to be cherished by all.
Leave alone the filter coffee smell and fine smell emanating when vathal kuzhambu is just boiling.

Who can deny the comfort the infant enjoys while sleeping in a swing of old saree worn by its mother?The child identifies the mother in the smell of the swing.
Food wouldn’t be half as appealing and life would be very very dull indeed.Smell and taste are twins. Fragrances and scent give shine and lustre to our lives.,Thanks to our NOSE!

But smell includes pungent odours too. Smell is still the most enigmatic of all the senses.Many volatile compounds allow whiffs of it to escape and interact with the biochemical machinery of our body through the one inch projecting agent,the nose.

Perfumers are brilliant at their jobs not because they have better noses, but because they have perfected the art of perception about scents and classifying them.
In between smelling each scent, it is important to reset the nose by placing your nose inside the clothes and breathe in.Otherwise the nose gets confused.
A lady’s nose is hypersensitive when she is pregnant, causing her to develop an abnormal weird sense of taste, which in turn leads to bizarre cravings like pickles and the like.
The texture of the skin decides the suitability of scents.
WHO CAN FORGET the amazing classic one-liner in the movie Thiruvilayadal.

"Netrikan Thirapinum Kutram Kutrame – (Even if your third eye is open a mistake is still a mistake.)
LISTEN to the conversation
"Poet Nakkeeran: it was I who declared it as a defective poem, unfit for the reward
SIVA:-I wrote it.
Siva: I know about comprehensible, incomprehensible; known, unknown; delivered, undelivered; I know all and don’t need your advice on that. I know everything.
Poet: If you know everything, won’t there be a flaw in the poem you wrote? AND I can’t point out that error?
Siva: (Laughs) The poet has found fault in my poem! (Sarcastic) Let me see how you explain.
Discords and conflicts are hereditary to scholars. No one can change that, wait and watch. Nakkerar did you find fault in the usage of words or the gist?
Poet: There is no fault in the usage of words, even if it exists, it can be pardoned. The fault lies in the gist.
Siva: What is the fault?
Poet: Can you repeat the poem?
Siva: …. Is there a flower that surpasses the fragrance of this woman’s hair? This is my poem. (Truncated)
Poet: The meaning of your poem?
Siva: The hero in his stupor smelling the fragrance from the hair of the heroine, is posing this as a query to the bee. This is the gist of my poem.
Poet: What does it purport?
Siva: “Bee, you are exploring the pollen grains of flowers, have you observed a flower with a fragrance that surpasses this woman’s hair fragrance?”
Poet: What is your concluding message to our king?
Siva (Laughs) Have you not understood? My judgment is that ‘woman’s hair has natural fragrance’
Poet: That can never be. Usage of perfumes and continuously sporting flowers is what causes the fragrance in the hair. I can never accept that woman’s hair has natural fragrance from birth. Even the purest of all women will have only artificial and not natural fragrance in her hair.
This applies Even for the entire women folks in all the fourteen realms of the world.
Siva: How about Goddess Bharathi who resides in your tongue and helps you to pen your poems?
Poet: Not only her, this holds good for all the deities I worship.
Siva: Really?With certainty? Can you swear on your Tamil.
Poet: Sure, certainly and I swear on my Tamil.
Siva: Nakkerar, carefully look at me. Is the poem I wrote wrong? (He opens his third eye and exposes it to the poet that he is Lord Siva himself.)
Poet: (Puts his palms in prayer) Scholar, even though you reveal who you are and I can see your third eye, and even if your whole torso turns as ‘eyes’ and burn me , an error is an error.

In view of the modern view of the research scholars, ,Nakkeera's assertion may prove to be wrong.
Amazing!This little fixture to our face by the Divine Architect ,is capable of so…….many achievements!

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