"Moe, Larry... the cheese!!"
Posted on 01/29/2009 6:47:57 AM PST by MyTwoCopperCoins
LONDON: It is often suggested that there's natural smell in females that arouse males, but a team of testers have now found that women smell of onions while men smell of cheese.
A Swiss team of researchers, who studied the armpit sweat samples from 24 males and 25 females, found marked differences in the sweat from men and women after they had spent time in a sauna or 15 minutes on an exercise bike.
"Men smell of cheese, and women of grapefruit or onion," said Christian Starkenmann of Firmenich, a company in Geneva that researches flavours and perfumes for food and cosmetics companies.
A team of independent testers recruited by the scientists found the smell from women's armpits was more unpleasant. According to the results, which appear in Chemical Senses, women's armpit sweat contained relatively high levels of an odourless sulphur-containing compound - 5 milligrams per millilitre of sweat versus 0.5 milligrams in men, the New Scientist magazine reported today.
When the researchers mixed this compound in the lab with bacteria commonly found in the armpit, the bugs turned it into a thiol - a previously discovered odour from armpits that is akin to onion.
Men had relatively high levels of an odourless fatty acid which turned into a cheesy odour when exposed to the same types of bacteria.
The balance of oniony to cheesy precursors in women's sweat made it smell worse than men's as rated by independent smell assessors. The research could lead to a new understanding of body odour - and a new range of deodorants designed to tackle the unique smells of men and women.
Earlier, scientists in the US have suggested that women can sense if a man is attracted to her by the smell of his armpit sweat.
Actually the girls at the Dragon bar in Dongduchoen smell like kimchee. And yes, that is a good thing.
I smell like cheese? Is that Gouda?
I used to think they all smelled like beer and cigarettes.
Sighs... another scientific study in uselessness. Where do they find these scientist, who sit in saunas smelling armpits?
Limburger????
It kind of reminds me of the Scientific study of how Rat’s blood pressure rises when they fart.
Very little can compare to a Swiss Air connection flight I took into Lausanne with four orthodox jewish passengers in full black coats. It was hot on the runway in the small plane and I thought the flight attendant was going to faint from the smell. I mean it’s not like they couldn’t have bathed or tried an antiperspirant. Wowie, that was some flight!
I always thought is was salmom.
"Moe, Larry... the cheese!!"
Oh, I sure hope that was a typo.
Careful about sending your hamburger back for more onions and cheese.
How does he smell?
Depends on which part you are smellin’.
It was.
And a poker table came down from the ceiling! ;)
Will alum make other things shrink? ;0)
As we say in Texas, ain’t no better cheese than Longhorn
My dog has no nose.
How does he smell?
Bad!
When we ride a cow it smells like Philly!
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