The smell of freshly cut grass reduces stress and protects nerve cells from the damage that stress can cause, according to researchers at the University of Queensland in Austrialia.

Sweet scent of new-mown grass puts paid to stress

September 24, 2009

The smell of freshly cut grass reduces stress and protects nerve cells from the damage that stress can cause, according to researchers at the University of Queensland who have bottled the chill-out fragrance.

Nickolas Lavidis, a senior lecturer from UQ’s school of biomedical sciences, studied the long-term effect of intermittent chronic stress in rats and mice.

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