Guys smell like vanilla
Hey, I'm not making this stuff up people. According to a research group (some of them at Duke University over in Durham NC--just a few miles from where I work) some people perceive male sweat as smelling like vanilla. Kinda makes me feel like a potential air fragrance factory. Not just stinky. Here's the lead paragraphs from the Reuter's Newswire story : When it comes to a man's body odor, the fragrance -- or stench -- is in the nose of the beholder, according to U.S. researchers who suggest a single gene may determine how people perceive body odor. The study, published online on Sunday in the journal Nature, helps explain why the same sweaty man can smell like vanilla to some, like urine to others and for about a third of adults, have no smell at all. So what do you think? You women out there--do men smell as good as fresh baked cookies? Androstenone, a chemical which is created when the body breaks down the male sex hormone testosterone, is in the sweat of men and wo...