Smell of cinnamon can make us buy expensive things: study — foxnews.com

If she smells cinnamon, she might get out her wallet. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma) Shoppers, beware: Your nose could trick you into spending more than you'd planned to. That's according to a new study, which finds that fragrances linked to a feeling of warmth—cinnamon, for instance—can lead us to buy fancier items, Medical Daily reports. It's a little complicated: Warm fragrances, it seems, make people "feel that the room they are in is more crowded, and feel less powerful as a result," the authors write in the study, published in the journal Marketing.

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