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Finn Andersen is not surprised that so many people find the scent from sawing pleasant.
Do You Love the Scent
of Freshly Cut Wood?
“Love is more about scents than anything else,” Finn Andersen says. He is not surprised that so many people find the scent from sawing pleasant.
The name of Finn Andersen’s company in Sweden is Naturkosmetikkompaniet Crearome (translated: Company Crearome). He works in the field of essential oils, both as raw material for industry and for manufacturing the company’s own skin and hair products. Essential oils are found in trees, plants and herbs, and they have many quali- ties besides their scents.
“Juniper oil contains substances that have strong bacteri- cidal qualities,” Finn exemplifies.
In other words, it would be a good idea to make butter knives of juniper. The risk of bacteria growth is less com- pared to the growth on steel knives.
Nevertheless, scent holds a unique position, not only by the pleasure it can give, but also by the processes it starts in the brain and the body. Some reactions are from physi- cal causes, others emanate from awoken memories.
“Everyone who has taken a walk in a pine forest on a warm summer’s day, has experienced that the air is easy to breathe. You are put in a good mood and become clear in thought. This is, to a certain extent, due to essential oils that evaporate from trees and other plants,” Finn says.
If you are sawing a pine tree with your Logosol Sawmill on a warm spring day, you are exposed to these essential oils. Your experience of becoming happy by sawing timber is not a figment of the imagination.
“I also assume that the scent of fresh cut wood awakens childhood memories and creates a sense of security.”
Finn has a past career as a cook, and he knows that good food is more about scent than taste. We can only perceive five tastes, but when it comes to scents we can perceive 10,000. The only thing that distinguishes nettles from herbs is that the latter contain essential oils. In many cases herbs have medical qualities.
”Caraway reduces wind production when you have eaten pea soup,” Finn states.
But we return to the positive effects of the scent from wood being sawn. Scents have an effect on the older part of the brain, and the effect goes, so to speak, right into the heart. We become hopelessly captured by the feeling the scent provokes. The American scientists Richard Axel and Linda B. Buck have gained new knowledge about the function and great importance of the sense of smell. For this work they were awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 2004. *