There is a mushroom that makes women have an immediate orgasm when they sniff it

SCIENTISTS have discovered a mushroom that, when sniffed, can give women an immediate orgasm.

The Dictyophora species, which grows on dried lava in Hawaii, smells disgusting to men.

But when sniffed by female volunteers, more than half experienced spontaneous orgasms.

The Dictyophora mushroom Getty

The mushroom's aphrodisiac powers were first discovered in 2001, but scientists John Halliday and Noah

Soule have now brought it back into the public eye in an article on IFL Science.

It is not known exactly why sniffing the funghi has such an extreme effect, but Halliday and Soule say it has hormone-like compounds which may be similar to those released during sex.