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Foods that make you smell more attractive

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Re: Foods that make you smell more attractive

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An interesting tangent here from the article:

  This is the first study on human axillary odour to sample a large number of subjects, and our findings are relevant to understanding the chemical nature of human odour, and efforts to design electronic sensors (e-nose) for biometric fingerprinting and disease diagnoses.
Individual and gender fingerprints in human body odour (2006)

~ https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rsif.2006...

Any updates on how that's panned out in the past decade; robustness in the face of diet change, application in the field, overt or covert, marketing sales of magicTech to LEO adjacent bodies, etc. ?

Re: Foods that make you smell more attractive

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post #4

no mention of curry? the Jain guy that works with me smells so good of curry every day that i breathe deep whenever i talk next to him. it is quite pleasant. very much the opposite of stereotypical insults about men from india.

I hope you don't actually start inhaling deeply each time you're around your coworker.

Re: Foods that make you smell more attractive

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If I don't sweat enough, urea builds up in my skin and it begins to smell like pee/old people.

If I don't jog or do something strenuous for a week or two and then go for a hard sweaty run my shirt afterward smells like someone peed on it.

When I do jog/sweat regularly my body odor is completely neutral.

Re: Foods that make you smell more attractive

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post #4

no mention of curry? the Jain guy that works with me smells so good of curry every day that i breathe deep whenever i talk next to him. it is quite pleasant. very much the opposite of stereotypical insults about men from india.

Probably because Jains don't cook with aliums
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