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The thing is with smell is, it's basically a highly complex, involved diff tool. If you're surrounded by the same smells constantly, you won't pick up the smell
by LilBytes 6y ago
The thing is with smell is, it's basically a highly complex, involved diff tool. If you're surrounded by the same smells constantly, you won't pick up the smells. The body odour you express becomes the status quo.
For me to be able to smell my own body odour, they'd have to be a point in time where I didn't have body odour. And if my BO is so wretched I don't need to put my nose into my arm pit to smell it (I challenge anyone to disagree with me that they don't do an arm pit sniff test to gauge their cleanliness) well, throw me into a fucking lake.
Of course, some people may have more delicate smells than most. Or not at all. I don't know where I sit. But I've got a 100% success rate in never being told 'my dude, you smell like an over ripe peach', so I think I'm doing OK. Or my friends are part of a dasteredly ruse to forever keep me single.
- maskedoffender 6y agoI don't sniff my armpits because they've never smelled in my life. I have a genetic defect where I don't produce apocrine sweat (the kind that causes bacteria to produce odor) but still maintain the eccrine sweat that cools me down. This trait is associated with dry earwax. I've worn a shirt for a week straight and had a relative with a sensitive nose smell it and another shirt that had not been worn a day. They incorrectly guessed which shirt I had worn and which one I hadn't.
- LilBytes 6y agoThat's really interesting, thanks for sharing.
- FindMySocks 6y agoPrince Andrew? Is that you?
- LilBytes 6y agoI don't understand the reference?
- notadog 6y agoPrince Andrew once used his 'inability to sweat' to refute Epstein allegations. (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/prince-andrew-jeffrey-epstein-sweat-allegations-pizza-expresss-a9208496.html https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/prince-andrew-jef...)