[ SECRET POST 3889 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3889 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Things you've wondered but can't ask without sounding like a jerk or an idiot

[(Anonymous)]

Is it true that people smell differently to different people due to their diet? Like how white people are supposed to smell like sour milk to asians, Indians smell like curry etc?

Re: Things you've wondered but can't ask without sounding like a jerk or an idiot

[(Anonymous)]

I mean, I can buy Indians smelling like curry if they cook it alot. that stuff penetrates.

Re: Things you've wondered but can't ask without sounding like a jerk or an idiot

[(Anonymous)]

Don't know the answer to your question, unless the person in question has been cooking, or maybe eating a ton of garlic. But I'm white and have heard that apparently wet white people smell like wet dog? Idk.

Re: Things you've wondered but can't ask without sounding like a jerk or an idiot

[(Anonymous)]

Your race or ethnicity can't affect how other people smell to you. The only truth in there is that your diet can affect how you smell, and people with a rare degree of smell sensitivity (which has nothing to do with race, some people just have it) might notice that for example, Indian people are more likely to smell like curry than white people because curry is much more commonly eaten in India than any predominantly white country.

Re: Things you've wondered but can't ask without sounding like a jerk or an idiot

[(Anonymous)]

The only time I notice how people smell is if they're not wearing deoderant or they used too much body spray.

Re: Things you've wondered but can't ask without sounding like a jerk or an idiot

[(Anonymous)]

I have a very sensitive sense of smell (not a fun thing, believe me) and I've noticed that sometimes what I eat tends to affect the smell of my sweat. Which seems rather odd. I'd say there was a good chance that before people slathered on perfumes and deodorants that people could smell things like that a bit more--what you'd eaten recently, or regularly, etc.

I know the Native Americans were said to be able to track early white settlers by their smell...but they may have just had really bad hygiene, too. I'm pretty sure bathing wasn't particularly common back then among the white settlers.

Re: Things you've wondered but can't ask without sounding like a jerk or an idiot

[forgottenjester]

From what I remember of my history classes hygiene, particularly bathing, was really, really fucking bad among white settlers at the time and one way to tell that one of the whites was adopting the Native American's way of life (Much to the consternation and racist views of their fellow whites) was that the person was a lot cleaner suddenly.

"I can't smell you from 40 paces! You heathen!"

Apparently not bathing was a societal reaction to the bubonic plague.

But take what I know with a grain of salt because American School History classes are phenomenally bad.

Re: Things you've wondered but can't ask without sounding like a jerk or an idiot

[soldatsasha]

I have a pretty sensitive nose (ia with above anon, not fun at all) and I definitely notice that different people smell differently. I've noticed if I eat something strong I can sometimes smell it on my sweat the next day, and I've noticed other people smelling like garlic or curry or whatever.

So I think some of it's diet. But I also think it's probably differences in the products people use when bathing and how often they shower and wash their clothes and stuff.

Like, lots of black people use iirc cocoa-based products for their skin and hair? It has a really distinctive smell that's different from like, 'white person shampoo' or whatever. Same thing with how you wash your clothes. Someone who hand-washes their stuff, or let's it air dry or something, their clothes usually smell a lot more "fresh" and less chemical. Or if they take a bath most days and only wash their hair once a week, they'll smell more person-y and less perfume-y.