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for a reason i don't understand when i follow the link i pasted here,the article doesn't seem to appear
so if this happens to you too
google
Oregon's suicide headache tree
it's an interesting reading :)

My Mom gave me the paper yesterday to read.  Any research could be good I guess but the article connects the act of smelling "Oregon Myrtle" with a CH attack.  I was curious if this meant it started someone's cycle or just triggered a headache within their current cycle. 

Several botanical smells have started an attack during my cycles in the past and I avoid like the plague during my cycles since: hedge nettle and catnip.  Eating stinging nettle raw has done it too.  Yes, you can eat stinging nettle raw without getting stung (barehanded picking too).

I figure these smells act in the same ways as alcohol or the trigger foods that we all avoid.  So more research?? sure why not.  I didn't come away from the article thinking I will soon know the great mysteries of the world.

I was also curious about the latin name of the plant.  There are so many myrtles and laurels that look similar to the photo that I am not really sure what plant it is.  Not to bag on the article....jus' sayin'.

OK, just wiki'd it, seems like Oregon Myrtle is a close smelling relative of bay laurel.  I really like the smell of bay laurel and sniff it whenever I see it.  Maybe I am actually smelling the myrtle thinking it is the laurel.  So complex my friends. >:(

--Shaggy

I've got a bay laurel tree  - it is the bay leaf used to spice foods. The dried leaf loses 99% or more of the aromatic compounds, and these oils definitely rival any perfume or hydrocarbon solvent.  I can see how it would trigger some people.

Bay Laurel contains: eucalyptol, terpenes, sesquiterpenes, methyleugenol, α- and β-pinenes, phellandrene, linalool, geraniol, and terpineol. 

let's hope something will come up from this research.
It was time to see something moving