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Daniel Keane

Smelling a strong fragrance during sleep delivers huge memory boost

Smelling a strong fragrance during sleep offers a major boost to memory and could be a potential treatment for dementia, a study has found.

Researchers in the US found that leaving a fragrance wafting through the bedroom of older adults for two hours every night for six months boosted cognitive capacity by 226 per cent.

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