Cork Dork: A Wine-Fueled Adventure Among the Obsessive Sommeliers, Big Bottle Hunters, and Rogue Scientists Who Taught Me to Live for Taste

by Bianca Bosker

Romantic love alters women’s sense of smell to deflect attention “away from potential new partners,” effectively binding them more intensely to their mates. Odors also strengthen the attraction between mothers and their infants, whose natural aroma causes a dopamine surge in the reward areas of the mothers’ brains—“almost like they were sniffing some kind of cocaine,”