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Do you find that people of different races sometimes smell different? Not just individuals, but have you ever noticed a lot of people from a certain race having a particular smell?

Sometimes I notice this. Obviously I wouldn't say anything out loud as it would be rude and I'd probably get called a racist even though it's just an observation,

Troll, you are all over F!S today! Dayum.

You think I'm the same person who made the Brony secret and started the thread above? Those are the only (other?) trollish things I've seen here. And I didn't post either of them.

Anyway, I know this is a subject that could be controversial or offensive and therefore someone might think I am trolling. But I asked because it is something I have observed myself and I was genuinely curious to see if other people had.

Um yeah they probably share some cultural things like food ingredients it makes sense.

You probably smell like something too.

Exactly. Like Scandinavians are genetically more lactose tolerant than most other people and often smell a little like sour milk/baby smell. Curry lovers smell a little like curry, garlic eaters have garlic breath, asparagus and oath affects both pee and sweat, marijuana affect sweat etc. But it's a cultural thing more often than a genetic thing, really.

maybe it's just if they bathe or not as a peoples right?

...Not that I've noticed? I don't exactly go around sniffing people though.

and I'd probably get called a racist even though it's just an observation,

lol

do you really think that because something is 'just an observation' it somehow can't be racist

No. What you are probably smelling is more of a dietary cultural thing. Like for example, Americans of Indian background that have been here for generations smell like every other American. While Indians from India smell different from them. Why? Because the Indian American's diet is more likely less spicy and rich in things like garlic and curry, which is common in Indian cuisine because their diet is more likely stereotypical American; steak, corn, potatoes, sandwiches, etc. And these things, garlic and curry, will make your skin and breath smell a certain way. (You eat enough garlic and the stench of garlic will literally come out of your pores because of the way your body metabolizes the food.)

So, if a Swede were to move to India and ate what the locals ate and only what the locals ate then soon, that Swede will smell like a local. Like I said, it has nothing to do with race and everything to do with dietary culture.

Well said.

So why does it seem like black Americans often smell different than white Americans?

Cocoa butter

The use of it as a skin cream is way more popular in the African American community than in the non-African American community. It has a strong, distinct odor. That's probably what you are smelling.

Yes, this. Also might be the variety of hair salves and oils most of the girls and women I grew up with used on their scalps.

Different person here.

- They also might have specific cultural foods they eat.
- They probably use different skin and hair products because they have different skin and hair needs.

Grrr, beat me to it and I didn't even notice.

Ugh, an old couple my parents are friends with had this thing where they ate a lot of garlic for health reasons and they reeked of it.

Not by default no but types of food can affect body chemistry, which can have an effect on body odor (and taste of sexual fluids). So if the only people of other races you see are all deep into their culinary heritage, and it's different from yours, it's possible you're noticing that.

Well ... kind of? I have two acquaintances who are Malay but have very dark skin (I know one of them has Indian relatives but I'm not sure about the other) and they have a very similar body odour. I'm not sure if that's coincidence or what, because they're the only dark-skinned Malay people I've ever met. I've never met anyone else who had that smell.

I've noticed an old people smell.

I honestly try to breathe out when passing close to *anyone* in the stores, because way too many people, at least around here, smell like body odor and cigarette smoke and/or ALL THE PERFUME/COLOGNE gah.

Gives me a headache when a pack of teen boys pass, in this swirling miasma of Axe or whatever the fuck it is they wallow in.

Well, some people have cultural and religious things about how often they bathe, I think. Other than that?

I do know that as a white girl in Asia I feel so frikkin stinky all the time. Genetically Asians have (on average) FAR less of the sweat glands that produce actual stinky sweat, so all summer I'm sorrowfully getting smellier as the day goes on while my friends are staying as fresh as dewy roses.

Yes, east Indian people have a very distinct smell to me. I think it might be because they've got a very different type of cuisine from the kinds of things I eat.

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