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Women Smell Like Onions; Men Smell Like Cheese

By Stacy in Everything Else, Food & Drinks, Science & Tech on Feb 3, 2009 at 12:20 pm


And together, we smell like a quesadilla? OK, maybe not. But a company in Geneva that researches flavors and smells for the food and perfume industry did find that men and women smell like those respective foods when they sweat. Women release a compound containing sulphur that smells like onion when mixed with bacteria like that found in armpits, and men release high levels of a fatty acid that smells like cheese when mixed with the same bacteria.

Weird.

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  1. Michelle
    Feb 3rd, 2009 at 1:18 pm

    Haha, I already knew that.

  2. LisaL
    Feb 3rd, 2009 at 1:34 pm

    Huh... ya know, now that you mention it... whenever I do sweat alot, I do tend to start smelling a bit oniony. o_O Thank god for clean water and soap!

  3. wok
    Feb 3rd, 2009 at 2:15 pm

    I do smell like cheese.

  4. ukanduit
    Feb 3rd, 2009 at 2:34 pm

    I wonder how they induced this strange behavior for there research? What did they call it... "sweat" was it? Those funny scientists, what will they discover next?

  5. Ali S.
    Feb 3rd, 2009 at 3:35 pm

    I'm glad that at least they raised the question of whether or not this is just for people in that region. Also, the mentioning of the gene and diet factor is equally important.

  6. doug
    Feb 3rd, 2009 at 4:55 pm

    i always thought that. but i think i smell more like onions when i sweat :O

    what does this mean then

    (oh i am a guy)

  7. Gauldar
    Feb 3rd, 2009 at 5:14 pm

    God bless our native cousins, cheese & onions.

  8. The Manticore
    Feb 3rd, 2009 at 7:51 pm

    I smell like tacos when I sweat...no srsly.

  9. nxsus6
    Feb 4th, 2009 at 12:36 am

    barf.

  10. Bukowski
    Feb 4th, 2009 at 7:39 am

    They don't say what kind of cheese.
    There are thousands of different cheese, so thousands of different cheese smell.

  11. Evilbeagle
    Feb 4th, 2009 at 8:18 am

    I don't know how I feel about smelling oniony.

  12. Gail Pink
    Feb 4th, 2009 at 2:24 pm

    Thanks for making me lose my appetite.

  13. JT the Impailer
    Feb 4th, 2009 at 3:17 pm

    I thought women smelled like fish.

  14. Ben83
    Mar 26th, 2009 at 12:56 pm

    JT that's not in the arm pits that smell like fish. LMAO

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