Women Smell Like Onions; Men Smell Like Cheese

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.

Link via Slashfood

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!
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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?
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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.
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