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Foods that make you smell more attractive

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Re: Foods that make you smell more attractive

#11

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.

I would expect that it washes of? Why does jogging help but not a daily shower?

Re: Foods that make you smell more attractive

#13
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 breathe deep whenever i talk to him

Imagine working at the office and whenever one of your co-workers comes up to talk to you he always sniffs incredibly deeply inbetween sentences.

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 breathe deep whenever i talk to him Imagine working at the office and whenever one of your co-workers comes up to talk to you he always sniffs incredibly deeply inbetween sentences.

Just needs some lick smacking and a very satisfied "mmmm..."

Re: Foods that make you smell more attractive

#16
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.

NB. Curry considered dangerous:

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2020/dec/24/d...

Re: Foods that make you smell more attractive

#17

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.

I would expect that it washes of? Why does jogging help but not a daily shower?

Sweating releases whatever is in your sweat glands - which builds up. If you sweat a lot really fast, it even ‘washes’ them out in a sense.

Sweat glands are under the skin, and a shower doesn’t touch them.

Re: Foods that make you smell more attractive

#18

All of my girlfriends have mentioned being attracted to my scent. I always assumed it was a combination of pheromones and a vegan diet.

It could also just be survivorship bias - the girls who found you repulsive never became your girlfriend in the first place to comment on your scent.

Re: Foods that make you smell more attractive

#20
I used all of the plants discussed, interesting meats like various types of game, lamb, offal, turtles, frogs, raw oysters, all shellfish in general, and a whole bunch of fermented foods including every kind of cheese, and all the curries, to filter out the squeamish during the partner search. 45 years later I think the strategy has proved itself spectacularly. During the pregnancy all that stuff was in the mix every day and the result was by 1 1/2 years old depending on the meal we called the kid The Broccoli Monster or The Asparagus Monster on account of the kid's hilarious enthusiasm. Fascinating watching the asparagus get inhaled. Also we didn't force it but when the crawler snuck into the fridge for raids invariably she grabbed the BBQ chicken or the ham. "Guess she's not a vegetarian...". We have pix. Kid recently got a food science MS from UC Davis.

Kinda figures this is in the BritishBC.

Edit: I'm very happy for the down votes, because it gives me new data on a subset of current HN commenters. Musk really needs you because those Mars rockets aren't going to be a culinary paradise. He's probably going to just put in a row of push button dispensers for that stuff they dish out on the ship in The Matrix. Unclear if the tubes go directly to a row of hungry mouths, or even more efficiently right down into the stomachs.

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