Some GLP-1 weight loss drug users say they’ve picked up an unexpected — and not inexpensive — hobby since they started using the shots: a new infatuation with perfume.
They just can’t get enough of sweet, dessert-like fragrances and admit to obsessively buying up dozens of bottles of vanilla and cinnamon perfumes.
Professor Leslie Kay (Psychology) spoke to The Independent about how the drugs may make the part of the brain that processes smells extremely sensitive to food smells.
“The drugs could help engage the olfactory pleasure circuits and feelings of satisfaction, hijacking them for non-real food smells, like gourmand and other types of perfumes,” she said.